222 Mr. W. E. Shuckard's Description, S\'c. 



XXXIV. Description of Scolia fulva. By W. E. 

 Shuckard, Esq. 



[Read March, 1840.] 



Scolia fulva. (Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. xv. page 516, 

 plate 71, fig. 1.) 



This insect was described in the following words in the work 

 above quoted: — " Of Scolia we have figured a species which we 

 call ftdva. It is black, but entirely clothed with fulvous hairs; 

 the basal segment of the abdomen and posterior femora black, 

 the former shining. It is from South America." 



There are some particulars in this description omitted and others 

 erroneously stated, and all the deficiencies I am enabled to supply 

 through the kindness of the Rev. F. W. Hope, our president, who 

 has placed both the sexes in my hands for the purpose of describ- 

 ing them. The species belongs to the first section of Scolia, with 

 three submarginal cells and two recurrent nervures. It is very 

 rare in coloured Scolice that the sexes are alike, but here we have 

 a complete resemblance, except in structural details peculiar in 

 the sexes. The following is their description : — 



Head, thorax, base of abdomen and thighs black, the head 

 and thorax covered with a dense fulvous pubescence, remainder 

 of abdomen, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi of a rich fulvous red. The 

 wings are fulvous, with their margin obscure. 



In the female the abdomen has a black spot on each side of the 

 second, two spots in the centre of the third, and an abbreviated 

 interrupted transverse black band on the fourth, segment, and the 

 male has the margin of the second segment black. 



These insects, instead of being from South Amei'ica, are from 

 New Holland and its vicinity ; the female is from Melville's 

 Island, and the male from some part of New Holland which is 

 unnamed. I am able thus to show foreign Entomologists what the 

 insect is that has thus previously been incorrectly described, 

 although well figured, especially in the coloured copies of the 

 above work. 



