448 Mr. W. F. Kiroy's descriptions of 



Discolia fasciatipcnnis, Smith. 



Scolia fasciatipennis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M., 



iii., p. 103, n. 89 (1855). 

 Elis fasciatipennis, Sauss. & Sich., Cat. Scol., p. 169 



(1864). 

 Scolia alaris, Sauss., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (3), vi. 



p. 203 (1858) ; Sauss. & Sich., Cat. Scol. pp. 97, 



282 (1864). 



This species was referred hy Saussure and Sichel to 

 Elis, owing to its having been inadvertently included in 

 a wrong section of Scolia by Smith. 



Apart from the neuration, it cannot be confounded 

 with Liacos nigrita, Fabr., in which the punctures are 

 much smaller and less numerous, and the dark colouring 

 of the wings is much paler, and almost confined to the 

 neighbourhood of the costa and the base. 



Discolia disparilis, n. s. (PI. XV., fig. 7). 



Long. corp. 21 — 26 mm. ; exp. al. 36 — 48 mm. 



Black, hairy, thickly punctured, the convex space between the 

 antennal ridge and the frontal ocellus, and the middle of the 

 thorax, and of the second and third segments of the abdomen, 

 smooth and shining, and sparingly punctured ; its under surface 

 but slightly punctured in the female. Wings clouded hyaline ; 

 the whole of the cells, and a broad band on the costa of the fore 

 wings, ceasmg before the tip, violet. 



Hah. Natal ; Angola. 



There are two females and a male from Natal in the 

 Collection, and a male from Angola. The male from 

 Natal differs somewhat, and may belong to another 

 species. It is much smaller (long. corp. IG mm. ; exp. 

 al. 30 mm.), and resembles D. fasciatipennis. Smith, in 

 size. The abdomen is more blue-black, and more 

 densely punctured beneath. There are probably several 

 allied species, similarly coloured. The present species 

 has a superficial resemblance to Scolia Halima, just as 

 Discolia fasciatipennis has to Liacos nigrita, Fabr. This 

 insect stood in the Collection as S. alaris, Sauss. ; but the 

 latter species is certainly synonymous with S. fasciati- 

 pennis, Smith. 



