1912] North American Scoliine ole, 
Scolia consors Saussure. 
Scolia consors Saussure, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4), III, 1863, p. 18, # 
Scolia amena. CRESSON, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., IV, 1865, p. 447, No. 3. 7 
The type of amena is at the American Entomological 
Society rooms at Philadelphia. 
Cresson describes the species as follows: 
““Scolia amoena, n. sp. 
“Black; orbits, two spots on prothorax, postscutellum, two large 
marks on third segment.of abdomen, a broad band on the fourth and a 
narrow line on the fifth, yellow; most of legs, sides of first and second 
abdominal segments and most of the venter dull rufous; wings sub- 
hyaline, the costa fuscous. 
*“Male.—Black, clothed with short pale pubescence, rather sparsely 
punctured; orbits, narrow behind, yellowish, indistinct; mandibles 
rufous at base, antennze as long as the head and thorax, entirely dull 
black. Thorax: two small triangular spots on the prothorax in front, 
and a transverse line on the postscutellum, yellowish; metathorax 
immaculate, very abrupt behind and concave; tegule piceous. Wings 
‘subhyaline, the costa broadly fuscous. Legs piceous, with palish 
pubescence; all the femora more or less rufous. Abdomen robust, 
black, sparsely punctured, shining, somewhat iridescent; sides of the 
first and second dorsal segments and the whole of the second ventral, 
rufous; two large, irregular, almost confluent, yellow marks on the fourth 
‘segment above; a broad, yellow band on the fourth segment, scalloped 
anteriorly, and on the fifth segment a narrow transverse yellow line; 
apical segment piceous, with three very short, subacute teeth. Length 
7 lines; expanse of wings 12 lines. 
‘“One specimen. A very handsomely ornamented species.” 
The writer has carefully examined the type specimen at Philadel- 
phia and has also examined one other specimen at the same place. This 
last varies from the above description somewhat. The orbits of the 
eyes are not all yellow but there is a broad yellow mark starting within 
the lower part of the emargination of the eyes and extending downward 
along the border of the lower lobe; there is also a narrow streak of the 
same color behind the eye. The yellow on the postscutellum is a band 
instead of a line. The tegule are ferruginous. The coxe are black and 
ferruginous in varying proportions. 
The trochanters, bases of the femora and the tarsi are blackish 
ferruginous. The rest of the legs are light ferruginous with the broad 
faces of the femora lightest. The dorsum of the first segment of the 
abdomen has a ferruginous band and its under side is ferruginous 
behind. The front face of the venter of the second segment is black 
and the venters of the segments from the fourth backward with the 
dorsum of the last two segments are obscure ferruginous. The wings 
