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36 Mr. F. Smith’s descriptions of new species 
Tribe FOSSORES. 
ScCOLIADZ. 
Elis thoracica. 
Tiphia thoracica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 254, 9. 
Elis thoracica, Sauss. et Sichel, Cat. des LEspéc. 
Scolia, 188, ¢. 
Male.—Length 8 lines. Black, with dense cinereous 
pubescence ; the first four seements of the abdomen with 
sparing pubescence of the same colour, and the apical 
margins of the segments fringed with the same; the 
three apical segments with black pubescence. The 
clypeus yellow, with a large triangular black spot, from 
which a short line runs to the anterior margin; the 
mandibles with their apex rufo-piceous. Thorax: the 
posterior margin of the prothorax yellow in the middle, 
not extending to the tegule ; a slightly interrupted line 
at the base of the scutellum, a spot on the post-scutellum, 
the tibix outside and the femora at their apex yellow; 
the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures dark brown. The 
first segment of the abdomen yellow above, with the base 
and sides narrowly black; the second also yellow, with 
the base black; the black produced more or less in the 
middle into an angular shape, and continued obliquely at 
the sides towards the apical margin of the segment, but 
not reaching to it; the third segment is similarly coloured, 
but the black base is broader; the fourth has a narrow 
yellow fascia, sometimes slightly interrupted in the middle ; 
the black colouring has more or less of a blue, green a 
violet tinge. . 
Elis hirsuta, Sauss. Cat. des Espéc. Scolia, 200, ?. 
Male.—Length 3i1—4} lines. Black, the abdomen 
iridescent; the ‘apical margins of the segments with yellow 
fascie. Covered with a thin cinereous pubescence ; the 
mandibles and clypeus yellow; the latter with a black 
spot in the middle, and the former rufo-piceous at their 
apex; the antennz fulvous beneath. The prothorax has 
a yellow line, which extends to the tegule; the scutellum 
and post-scutellum yellow; the apex of the femora and 
the tibiz outside yellow; the tarsi rufo-testaceous; the 
wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. The fasciz on 
the second and third segments widen abruptly laterally 
