new sjjccies of ScoUidcE. 4-45 



rather long, narrow, and pointed, greenish blue, with the cells 

 violet, and the hind margins narrowly brown ; in some lights the 

 wings appear much more strongly shining with blue and magenta, 

 especially on the under surface ; the outer fork of the recurrent 

 nervure, which is marked with a large bulla in D. fidgidipennis 

 is entire. 



Hah. Am. 



Diliacos dorycus, n. s. 



Exp. al. 50 mm. 



$ . Closely resembles D. cximius. Clypeus hardly punctured ; 

 body more shining and much less hairy than in D. exlmius ; meso- 

 thorax smooth in the middle, the edges finely punctured ; abdomen 

 sparingly punctured ; wings deep blue, with but little greenish 

 mixture, but strongly violet, shading into magenta, at the base and 

 over almost the whole surface beneath. 



Hah. Dorey. 



Genus III. Scolia, Fahr. 

 Scolia Halivia, n. s. 



Long. corp. 23 mm. ; exp. al. 40 mm. 



$ . Black, extremely thickly punctured, the middle of the 

 clypeus, of the vertex, of the thorax, and of segments 2 — 4 of the 

 abdomen, nearly smooth ; the sides of the body, the terminal 

 segments of the abdomen, and the legs thickly clothed with long 

 black hair ; abdomen beneath almost impunctate in the middle of 

 the segments ; wings hyaline with greenish nervures, edged with 

 violet ; a broad costal band on the fore wings, shining with purple 

 and violet, covering the upper portion of the principal cells, and 

 continued to the tip ; on the inner margin of the fore wings and 

 on the costa of the hind wings runs a stripe of the same colour for 

 about two-thirds of the length of the wings. 



Hah. Natal. 



This species has a superficial resemblance to Liacos 

 nigrita, Fabr., but apart from the difference in the 

 neuration, the latter species is much smaller and paler, 

 with the dark colouring hardly reaching the tip of the 

 fore wings, and the punctuation is much less dense, 

 especially on the mesothorax and on the first segment 

 of the abdomen. In S. Halima, too, there is a deep and 

 very strongly punctured concavity between the antennal 

 ridsre and the frontal ocellus. 



