402 Mr. Rowlan^^^l Turner’s Notes on the Scoliidae. 
Scolia {Diclis) qibinqucfasciata, Fabr. 
Seoliei qidnquefasciata, Fabr., Spec. Insect., i, p. 453, 
1781, 
Seolia sirjnata, Sin., Cat. Hyni. B.M., iii, p. 105, 1855, 
Hah. West Africa. 
Fcolia mansueta, Gerst., Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 
p. 512, 1857. 
Hal). Mozambique. 
These seem to me to be merely geographical races of the 
same species. Dielis soleata, Gerst., which is common in 
Mashonaland and the adjacent districts on the Zambesi, 
is undoubtedly a race of quinquefasciata, differing only in 
colour. 
Soclia {Dielis) socotrana Kirby. (Plate L, fig. 7.) 
Dielis socotrana, Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Mus., iii, p. 14, 1900. 
5 • Clypeus rounded at the apex, slightly convex, smooth and 
shining in the middle, with a short longitudinal sulcus at the apex. 
Front closely punctured above the antennae, vertex smooth and 
shining. Thorax coarsely punctured, the disc of the mesonotum 
sparsely, the scutellum, postscutellum and base of the median 
segment at the sides shining and almost smooth. Pleurae sparsely 
punctured ; abdomen with a few scattered piliferous punctures, a 
row of similar punctures before the apex of dorsal segments 1-4. 
Apex of the radial cell broadly truncate, very slightly oblique. 
Black; the mandibles fusco-ferruginous, spines of the tibiae whitish 
Wings hyaline, tinged with yellow, clouded with pale fuscous beyond 
the radial cell ; nervures testaceous. Dense white pubescence on 
the sides of the clypeus, on the sides of the first abdominal segment, 
a band of the same on the apical margin of the second and third 
dorsal and ventral segments and of the fourth ventral segment; 
dull sparse fulvous brown pubescence on the front, thorax and 
median segment; dense bright golden fulvous pubescence on the 
posterior margin of the head and pronotum, and golden pubescence 
on the apical margin of the fourth dorsal segment and on the two 
apical segments. Tarsal ungues ferruginous. Length 16 mm. 
Hob. Somaliland, Salable {von Erlanger). Berlin 
Museum. 
Scolia {Dielis) marshalli, sp. nov. 
$. Clypeus coarsely and sparsely punctured, the centre shining 
and almost smooth. Front very coarsely and closely punctured 
