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The type specimen and four others were taken in Colorado. 
The other two whose differences from the type have just been 
described were taken in California and Lower California. They 
are all in the collection of the American Entomological Society 
at Philadelphia. These specimens measure about 15 mm. 
The writer also has two specimens before him, one from the 
United State National Museum, collected in New Mexico and 
the other from Philadelphia collected in Texas, which vary 
from the above specimens toward Jlecontei, but standing closer 
to ridingsu than to the other. They vary from ridingsi in 
having the part of the head behind the emargination of the eyes 
and a large part of the thorax quite black. The specimen at 
Philadelphia has two yellow spots on the pronotum nearly 
obsolete and the three spots on the dorsum of the median seg- 
ment are ferruginous. The dorsum of the second segment of 
the abdomen has very small round black spots on its sides and 
the anterior edges of the third and fourth segments are very 
dark, almost black. The abdomen of the specimen from the 
United States National Museum has only the small black spots 
on the sides of the second segment of the abdomen above. 
The writer thinks that perhaps further collecting in the 
above territory may result in uniting ridingsi and lecontet. 
Scolia vintschgaui Dalle Torre. 
Scolia saussuret CAMERON, Biol. Cent. Amer., p. 112, 1893, Hymen. II, p. 226, 
fal, 10) © IBY as, a, ©. 
Scolia vintschgaut Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., VIII, 1897, p. 187, (new name). 
The type is probably in the British Museum. 
A. good figure of this species is given in Cameron’s Biologia 
Centrali-Americana, plate 12, fig. 9. The name saussurez used 
by Cameron, according to the rules of the International Zoolog- 
ical Congress will have to give way to vintschgaui because 
saussuret had been already used in 1864 by Saussure and Sichel 
for an African species of Scolia. 
Cameron describes the species as follows: 
“Black, hairy, two spots on the pronotum and the postscutellum 
yellow, abdomen bifasciate with yellow, prothorax reddish haired, 
wings smoky. Length of female, 14 mm. 
“Head coarsely punctured; the front ocellus in a deep round pit. 
Mesonotum coarsely and strongly punctured all over; scutellum punc- 
tures larger and more widely separated. Median segment, mid portion 
finely, lateral portions strongly, punctured. Head and thorax covered 
