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HISTORY 
The genus Scolia was established by Fabricius in 1775. In 
1802 Latreille established the family Scoliites, including the 
genera Sapyga and Scolia. In 1810 Latreille designated 
Scolia quadripunctata as the type of the genus Scolia. In 1817 
Leach established a tribe Scolides containing two families, the 
Tiphida and Scolida. In the latter family he made two divi- 
sions to which he gave no names, placing in the first division the 
genera Myzine and Meria and in the second division the genus 
Scolia, while he placed Sapyga in a separate tribe, the Sapygides. 
Westwood in 1839 changed Leach’s tribe Scolides to the family 
Scolide including under this the subfamily Scoliides and men- 
tioning the genus Tiphia but not Scolia, apparently because 
Scolia did not occur in Great Britain. For his second sub- 
family he adopted Leach’s tribe Sapygides thus bringing 
together under the family Scoliide Leach’s tribe III Scolides, 
and tribe IV Sapygides. He does not appear to have recog- 
nized Leach’s families Tiphida and Scolida. 
Cresson, 1887, included under the family Scoliide, Tiphia, 
Paratiphia, Myzine and Scolia, placing the Sapygide as a 
separate family. 
Ashmead, 1903, removed everything from the Scoliide 
except Scolia and Elis and a few genera so closely related to 
these that they have frequently been regarded as only subge- 
nera. He also made two subfamiles the Scoliine and Elidinz 
(now Campsomerine). Here Ashmead designated the type 
of Scolia as Scolia flavifrons Fab. evidently following Bingham 
who (Fauna Brit. India: Hymen., Vol. I, p 89) had already 
designated that species as the type of the genus. 
May 26, 1911, S. A. Rohwer, in No. 1837 of the Proceedings 
of the U. S. Nat. Museum Vol. XL, pages 551-587 calls atten- 
tion to Latreille’s paper in 1810 and writes as follows: 
“Family Scoliide, genus Scolia Fab. Type Scolia quadri- 
punctata Fab. Latreille 1810. Mr. C. Schrottky has contended 
that the type of the genus Scolia Fab. is Scolia atrata Fab. 
Scolia atrata was the first species included and according to the 
system used by Saussure and Sichel, belongs to Elis. In stat- 
ing that the type of Scolia is atrata Fab., Schrottky adheres to 
the antiquated first species rule. This adherence is unfor- 
tunate as the idea has been entirely done away with by most 
