1912] North American Scoliine oot 
with fulvous hair, that on the median segment being longer and paler. 
‘Yellow marks on the pronotum somewhat triangular. Abdomen above 
covered with long fulvous hair, the fifth and six densely covered all 
over with fulvous golden hair; basal segments finely punctured, the seg- 
ments fringed with pale golden hair, third segment for the greater part 
yellow, the back basal band projecting in the middle; fourth segment 
is yellow, except for a very black apical band. The legs are black, 
covered with long, pale hair; tarsal spines rufous. Wings are fusco- 
hyaline, the fore margin much darker, the dark band extending from 
the base to near the apex; the costa dark testaceous.”’ 
The writer has seen but one specimen, a female, which he could 
regard as this species. This specimen measures 14 mm. in length. Its 
ground color is black. The fore wings are fusco-hyaline with a darker 
streak extending from near the base of the first discoidal cell outward 
a short distance behind the costa and extending about halfway from 
the end of the radial to the apex where it gradually disappears. The 
area between this band and the costa has a distinct yellowish tinge. 
The wings have metallic reflections, blue at some angles, purple at 
others. The nervures are black ferruginous. Head, all black except 
mandibles which are partly ferruginous, antenne entirely black, thorax 
all deep black except two triangular spots on the pronotum and a trans- 
verse band on the postscutellum which are yellow. Legs black, the 
tarsi particularly the front pair with a tendency toward ferruginous, 
spines light ferruginous. Abdomen black except two very small spots 
on the second segment, broad bands on the dorsum of the third, fourth 
and fifth, which are yellow. The dorsum of the last segment is black. 
The dorsum of the third, fourth, and fifth are narrowly margined with 
black, both in front and behind. The dorsal plate of the mesothorax, 
posterior dorsal margins of the second, third, fourth and the dorsal and 
ventral posterior margins of the fifth segments of the abdomen are 
fringed with yellow hair. The dorsal surfaces of the segments from the 
second segment back are covered with yellow hair. The rest of the 
specimen is sparsely covered with whitish hair. 
The specimen was collected at Guadalajara Jal. Mexico. It 
is a female and is now in the collection of the American Ento- 
mological Society at Philadelphia. 
This is the only specimen seen by the writer, which appears 
to agree with Scolia vintschgaui and this one differs slightly in 
distribution of color. More are needed in order to determine 
the amount of color variation in this species. 
