Mr. Rowland E. Turner’s Notes on the Scoliidae. 403 
densely clothed with erect, long, black hairs ; the space round the 
ocelli very sparsely punctured, vertex smooth and shining, an arched 
depressed line above the posterior ocelli, the margins of the head 
fringed with long black hairs ; scape very closely punctured. Thorax 
deeply punctured, the scutellum, postscutellum and median segment 
very sparsely, the disc of the mesonotum and posterior margin of 
the pronotum smooth, the sides of the pronotum covered with long 
erect black pubescence, the posterior truncation of the median 
segment smooth. Abdomen with a few scattered piligerous punc¬ 
tures, the segments above and below fringed at the apex with long 
black hairs, a transverse row of punctures some way before the apex 
of each segment. Pygidium densely covered with black setae. 
Tibiae and tarsi spinose and hairy. 
Black; the apex of the pygidium fusco-ferruginous. Wings 
fuscous, fusco-hyaline near the apex, the whole glossed with green¬ 
ish blue. In some lights there are faint iridescent reflections on 
the abdomen. Length 26 mm. 
Hah. Gaza Land, Chirinda Forest (Odcndaal). Ex 
col]. Marshall. March. 
This is a very distinct species, having the wings more 
obscure at the apex and hind margin than in Discolia 
fasciatipennis, Sm. (alaris, Sauss.), the pubescence is also 
longer and denser tlian in that species. It may possibl}’^ 
prove to be the female of Dielis hrachicera, Grib., and 
seems to be more nearly allied to dimidiatipcnnis, Sauss., 
than to any other species. 
Scolia {Dielis) crinita, Sauss. 
Elis crinita, Sauss., Mem. soc. phys. et hist. nat. Geneve, 
xiv, p. 65, 1854, 
? Campsomeris princeps, Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 
p. 451, 1889, $. 
I consider that there can be little doubt that these 
forms are sexes of one species. 
Scolia {Dielis) radula, Fabr. 
Tiphia radula, Fabr., Syst. ent., p. 854, 1775, 
Dielis formosa, var. maculiceps. Cam., Tijdsch. v. Ent., 
xlix, p. 218, 1906, 
Cameron’s identification of his insect as a variety of 
formosa, Guer., is quite mistaken; there can be no doubt 
that his description refers to radula. The male described 
