new species of Scoliidcs. 451 



scutelhim, post-scutellum, and the middle of the metathorax above, 

 yellow. Abdomen with the segments black in front and yellow 

 behind ; the first segment is entirely black beneath, and is bor- 

 dered behind with black above for most of its width. The yellow 

 portion of the first three or four segments has a concave excavation 

 in the middle, and is again indented with black on the sides ; beneath 

 the black extends squarely at the sides, but with a curve in the 

 middle, into the yellow ; towards the extremity the black and 

 yellow bands are more even, though the yellow still projects beyond 

 the black on the sides. Legs black, with grey hair ; femora and 

 tibiae yellow above, and the former likewise on the sides. Wings 

 hyahne, the nervures rusty yellow. Punctuation apparently fine 

 and even, but much concealed by the pubescence. 



Hah. Chaman. 



Allied to E. garrula, Erichs., from which it differs in 

 the colour of the head and wings. 



Genus VI. Campsomeris, St. Farg. 

 Campsomeris tomentosa, n. s. 



Long. Corp. 18 mm. ; exp. al. 30 mm. 



$ . Black ; head and thorax clothed above with gilded pube- 

 scence, more silvery on the pleura ; jaws, antennae, and legs 

 ferruginous, the hair on the legs mostly grey ; abdomen with the 

 first segment clothed, and the others fringed, with grey hair 

 (nearly white beneath) ; the first segment with an irregular tawny 

 spot on each side above ; the second tawny above, with a black 

 stripe curving backwards from each side, in front of its extremities, 

 being a disconnected black stripe across the middle ; third segment 

 bordered behind with a tawny stripe, a little curved forwards at 

 the ends ; wings of a slightly yellowish hyaline, with tawny 

 nervures. 



Hah. Sierra Leone. 



Allied to C. crinita, Sauss. 



Campsomeris princeps, n. s. 



Long. corp. 30 mm. ; exp. al. 45 mm. 



5 . Black ; vertex, occiput, and thorax clothed with golden 

 hair ; head and abdomen at base nearly smooth; a patch of white 

 bail's beneath each antenna ; thorax with large punctures, but 

 with a bare V-shaped space in the middle of the mesothorax ; 

 abdomen with the basal segment clothed with golden haii's, the 



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