Mr. Rowland E. Turner’s Notes on the Scoliidae. 401 
pygidium and tarsi ferruginous brown, the spines of the tarsi 
whitish, one of the spines of the posterior tibiae long and spatuli- 
form. Head and thorax sparsely clothed with grey pubescence, 
dense and long between the antennae and on the posterior margin of 
the head, the abdominal segments with an apical fascia of hairs 
grey on the three basal segments, bright fulvous on the fourth and 
fifth, the pygidium densely covered with stiff golden setae. Wings 
hyaline, faintly clouded with fuscous at the apex, nervures 
ferruginous. Length 17 mm. 
Hah. S.W. Africa, Windhoek (Techoxo). 
Type in Berlin Museum. 
Very nearly allied to Elis 'punctnm, Sauss., of which it 
may be a western form, but the clypeus is much less 
coarsely striated, the front between the antennae less 
prominent and the colour of the pubescence and colour 
and sculpture of the apical dorsal segment are very dif¬ 
ferent. Trielis 'punchtm is in the Berlin Museum collec¬ 
tion from Lake Nyassa. The present species is in some 
respects intermediate between punctxim and stigma ; the 
latter species also occurs at Windhoek. 
The probable male of iechoivi has the clypeus yellow with a 
large triangular black mark in the middle, the pronotum, base of the 
scutellum, po.stscutellum, tegulae, femora, tibiae, tarsi, a broad, 
straight band occupying the apical two-thirds of dorsal segments 
1-4, and a similar band narrowed on the sides of the fifth and sixth 
segments yellow ; the apical half of the seventh dorsal segment 
ferruginous. The yellow abdominal bands are continued rather 
more narrowly on ventral segments 2-6, those on segments 2-3 
narrowly emarginate anteriorly on each side. Wings hyaline, ner¬ 
vures pale ferruginous. Radial cell truncate at the apex, the third 
cubital cell complete, more than twice as long on the radial as on the 
cubital nervure. First abdominal segment nearly as broad at the 
apex as long. Length 16 mm. 
Scolia (Trielis) stigma, Sauss. 
The probable male of this species differs from that of 
techowi in the rather slender form of the first dorsal abdo¬ 
minal segment and in the shape of the yellow bands on 
dorsal segments 2-4, which are more or less deeply emar¬ 
ginate in the middle anteriorly and contain a transverse 
black spot on each side. The flagellum is often more or 
less ferruginous. Length 14 mm. 
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