of Aculeate Hymenoptera of Japan. , 185 
C- — 1. Scolia annulata. uX^^^^ 
Tiphia annulata, Fabr. Ent. Sjst. ii. 225. Scolia 
4:-fasciata, Burm. Scol. 25, 27 ■$ only. Scolia annulata, 
Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. iii. 100, 72. Dielis annulata, 
Sauss. and Sicliel, Cat. Scol. 196, 210. 
Hab. — India, Java, Phil. Isl. (Manilla), Celebes, China, 
Japan (Hiogo and Nagasaki). 
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C ^ 2. Scolia grossa. in ^-^ 
Tiphia grossa, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 232. Scolia grossa, 
Burm. Scol. 23, 22; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. iii. 99, 70. 
Dielis grossa, Sauss. and Sichel, Cat. Scol. 199, 215. 
Elis sericea, Mel. Hym. 63, 31, ^. 
Hab. — India, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Aru, Japan 
(Hiogo and Nagasaki). 
Div. (Discolia), Sauss. 
Anterior wings with two submarginal cells and one 
recurrent nervure. 
3. Scolia fascinatus. ' 
Male. Length 8 lines. Black, the abdomen splendidly 
iridescent, with blue, violet, and coppery brilliancy. The 
head and thorax closely and strongly punctured, the 
clypeus rugose. Thorax shining; the metathorax with 
two small patches of cinereous ]3ubescence at its base ; 
the wings fuscous, and ha\'ing a coppery iridescence, the 
anterior pair darkest along the costal margin ; the second 
segment has a small lunate orange spot in the middle of 
its outer margin. 
Hab. — Hiogo. •' 
/i — • 4. Scolia japonica. 
Female. Length 9 lines. Black, shining and punc- 
tured ; the first, and three following segments of the ab- 
domen, with a large yellow macula on each side. 
The head strongly punctured, the clypeus longitudinally 
rugose ; the mandibles rufescent at their apex ; the face 
thinly covered with pale fulvous hair. Thorax strongly 
punctured ; the prothorax with a yellow line on each side, 
and being, as well as the metathorax, thinly covered with 
short pale fidvous pubescence ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, 
the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen: the first segment 
has an oblong spot on each side, the second has a similar 
spot, which is hook-shaped at its inner extremity ; the 
