1912] North American Scoliine : 323 
Scolia fulviventris. New species. 
This species is described from a type and five paratypes, all 
‘females; the type and two paratypes are in the collection of the 
American Entomological Society at Philadelphia, two paratypes 
in the collection of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute and 
one in the collection of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
The specimens range between eleven and fifteen mm. 
in length. 
The ground color of the species is black with yellow markings. The 
wings are dark fuliginous with a darker area running along the costal 
‘border from near the end of the costal cell to the tip of the wing, and 
give off metallic reflections, blue at some angles, purplish at others. 
Most of the dorsum of the abdomen is yellow and its whole venter is 
ferruginous. ; 
The head is black except a ferruginous, almost yellow spot just 
below the emargination of the eyes, a yellow streak behind the eyes and 
the middle of the anterior margin of the clypeus, which is ferruginous. 
It is quite thickly covered with yellowish white hairs especially thick 
and long in the area between the bases of the antenne and the anterior 
ocellus and on the occiput. The mandibles are ferruginous, more or 
less streaked with black. The antenneze are black, the three basal 
‘segments glistening. 
The thorax is black except two large triangular marks on the pro- 
notum running nearly back’to the tegule and a band covering the 
entire central portion of the postscutellum which are yellow. The 
dorsum of the mesothorax is covered with short yellow hairs, the rest 
of the thorax with short grey hairs. The tegule are black ferruginous. 
The legs to the end of the femur are black ferruginous, the tibia and 
tarsus becoming lighter. The larger spines are light ferruginous and 
the smaller ones yellowish. The tarsal claws are ferruginous, blackish 
at the tips. All of the legs are covered with rather long yellowish white 
hairs and the large spine at the end of the hind tibia is nearly one-half 
the length of the first tarsal segment. 
The first two segments of the abdomen are black above, with two 
‘small yellow spots on the first and two large confluent spots on the 
‘second. The third, fourth and fifth segments above are yellow, nar- 
towly margined with ferruginous, the yellow band on the third being 
slightly constricted in the middle. The sixth segment above and the 
venter are entirely ferruginous. All the segments are covered with 
short, and their edges fringed with long yellow hairs, paler beneath. 
