1912] North American Scoliine 330 
The second and third segments have on each side of their dorsal surface 
a large oval yellow spot. 
The writer has seen several specimens which varied from the above 
in that although the ground color of the body was black, a great part of 
the head, edges of the sclerites of the thorax, scutellum, dorsal part of 
the median segment, nearly all of the legs and the dorsum of the first 
segment of the abdomen were ferruginous while the rest of the abdomen 
was deeply tinged with the same color. A few specimens had two small 
yellow spots on the first segment of the abdomen and a yellow streak 
behind the eyes. The above description with the same variations will 
apply to the male. The writer has also seen a male with two small 
yellow marks on the fourth segment of the abdomen. The antennz of 
the male are entirely black. The variety maculata Guerin, of this 
species the writer has been unable to recognize in the material available. 
Fabricius records this insect from Carolina, Burmeister 
from sNorth: America. The writer has seen specimens from 
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
Mexas, Long Islands.N: Y., and Arizona: 
Scolia otomita Saussure. 
Scolia otomita SAusS. Am. Soc. Ent. France, (8), VI, 1858, p. 223, No. 35 &%. 
The location of the type is unknown to the writer. 
Saussure and Sichel describe the species in their catalogue. 
‘The following is a translation of the description: 
Male.—Small, black, greyish haired, abdominal segments three to 
five with yellow fascia. Length 1214 mm.; wings, 10 mm. 
Small, black, densely punctured, covered with grey hair. A small 
yellowish silvery spot on each side of the face outside of the clypeus. 
Two yellow spots on the prothorax and postscutellum yellow. The 
tegulz are brown, segments three, four, and five of the abdomen bear a 
yellow band which is margined only at the fifth. The smaller margins of 
the segments brown. All the segments of the abdomen strongly ciliated 
with tawny yellow hair. The end of the abdomen brown. Legs black, 
clothed with grey hairs. Tibial spines ferruginous. Wings transparent, 
nervures brown, radial cell subtriangular, large and truncate. Habitat 
Mexico. 
The writer has seen but one specimen, a male, which he could con- 
sider as this species. This specimen measures 13 mm. in length. Its 
ground color is black. The wings are fusco-hyaline, a much darker 
portion extending from within the end of the median cell along the 
costal border almost to the tip of the wing; metallic reflections are 
present, blue at some angles, purplish at others. The nervures are 
