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are two large transverse oval spots on the third with a narrow line at 
_ the end of the fourth segment which are yellow. All the rest of the 
abdomen is ferruginous. The length of this specimen is about 12 mm. 
The two specimens that the above description was written 
from were collected in Colorado. The writer has seen no other 
specimens like these in the Philadelphia collection, although he 
has seen several collections from that or adjacent territory. It 
is the writer’s opinion that further collections from Colorado 
would throw much needed light on the identity of this species. 
Scolia lecontei Cresson. 
Scolia leconter Cress., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., I, 1868, p. 376, n. 5 Q. 
Type in the collection of the American Entomological 
society at Philadelphia. 
Cresson describes this species as follows: 
Scolia (Discolia) Lecontei, n. sp. 
““Female.—Head black, sparsely punctured, a large rufous spot on 
the front, extending from the lower ocellus to and including the space 
between the antennz, and also the emargination of the eyes; posterior 
orbits, clypeus and mandibles, except tips, rufous; occiput clothed with 
a dense golden pubescence; antennz short, robust, black, scape dull 
rufous; thorax with deep, rather close punctures; prothorax, except its 
anterior middle, extreme lateral margin of mesothorax, tegule and 
scutellum rufous, the latter flat, with a few scattering, deep punctures; 
postscutellum bright yellow; rest of thorax black, sparsely clothed with 
golden pubescence, more dense on prothorax in front, and on meta- 
thorax, the prominent, lateral lobes of the latter with an obscure rufous 
spot; wings fusco-hyaline, strongly tinged with yellowish, especially 
along the costa to the tip of the marginal cell, beyond which it is 
violaceous-black; both wings have a beautiful purple reflection, espe- 
cially towards the apical margin; anterior wing with two submarginal 
cells, the second receiving one recurrent nervure; legs rufo-ferruginous, 
clothed with yellowish hair, most of coxe black; abdomen rufo-fer- 
ruginous, sparsely punctured, shining, second to fifth segments above 
stained more or less with blackish, second and third segments above 
with a large, ovate, bright yellow spot on each side, nearly meeting on 
the disk, those on the third segment more transverse and regular; 
fourth segment with a transverse yellow band at tip; fifth segment 
with a subobsolete, narrow yellowish stripe near the tip, sub-interrupted 
in the middle; apical margins of all the segments with a dense, rather 
long fringe of yellowish hairs; venter dull ferruginous, the third seg- 
ment black at base. Length 6 lines. 
“One female specimen. At first sight this species has much the 
appearance of Elis Xantiana Sauss.”’ 
