94 SCOLIID^. 



legs covered with a mixture of black and white stiff hairs and 

 spines ; wings flavo-hyaline, fuscous towards tlie apex, nervures 

 testaceous brown, teguliB reddish. 

 Var. The wings light fuscous. 



Hab. Assam ; Tenasserim. $ . Length 19-25 ; exp. 36-46 mm. 

 c? uukuown. 



*197. Elis eximia. 



Scolia exiuiia, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 99, $ . 



Elis eximia, b'auss. »^ Sich. Cat. Scot. p. 195 ; Cam. Mem. 3fanch. 

 L. Ph. Sac. (4) V, 1892, p. 110. 



2 ' Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth and shining, with only 

 a few scattered punctures on the head and thorax. Black ; a 

 large macula on the sides of the pronotum in front of the insertion 

 of the wings, the postscuteUum, and a spot on each side of the 

 median segment yellow ; the wings dark bi'own with a splendid 

 purple iridescence ; the pubescence and spines on the legs black ; 

 an ovate macula on each side of the first and three following 

 abdominal segments yellow, those on the 2nd and 3rd largest. 



Bab. India. § . Length 11 lines (24 n)m.). Unknown to me. 

 The type specimen is not now in the British Museum. 



198. Elis iris, 



Colpa iris, Lepel. Hym. iii, p. 547, c^ . 



Scolia iris, Bunn. Abh. Nat. G'es. Halle, i, pt. 4, p. 26 j Smith, Cat. 



iii, p. 100. 

 Elis phalerata, Saiiss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. 233. _ 

 Ehs iris, Sauss. ^ Sick. Cat. Scol. p. 201 ; C«?h. Mem. Manch. L. 



Fh. Soc. (4) V, 1892, p. 111. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pubescent ; head and abdomen 

 with a few scattered punctures ; thorax, except on the centre of the 

 mesonotum, coarsely and closely punctured. Black, the head and 

 thorax covered with coarse fulvous-red pubescence ; legs ferru- 

 ginous red, with coarse fulvous-red spines and stiff hairs; abdomen 

 with the margins of segments 1-4 narrowly yellow above and with 

 a fringe of stiff fulvous-yellow bail's, the apical two segments 

 studded with stiff black hairs ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the apex of 

 each fore wing with a dark fuscous macula. 



Var. The apex of the clypeus and labrum yellow. Some- 

 times the abdomen has the segments fringed with cinereous 

 hairs. 



(S similar, but more slender, vi^ith the clypeus, the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum, and the tegulse yellow. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Southern India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 Java. $. Length 16-18; exp. 32-35 mm. 6. Length 12-17; 

 exp. 30-32 mm. 



199. Elis ceylonica. 



Canipsouieris ceylonica, Kirhy, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 452, J c?; 

 Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, lb92, p. 111. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pubescent, the pubescence thick 



