Hymenoptera from New Caledonia. 237 
Family Scoliide, 
Scolia (Dielis) novocaledonica, nom. nov. 
Elis formosa, Sauss. Spec. Gen. Scolia, p. 208 (1861). 5 (nec 9, nec 
Guér.). 
This male is described he Saussure as the male of formosa, 
Guér., but his determination of formosa was wrong, the name 
being applied by him to the common Australian species 
previously described by him as tasmaniensis. True formosa, 
Guér., was described from a female taken in New Ireland, 
and apparently always has the second recurrent nervure 
incomplete. Males taken with a female corresponding to 
Guérin’s description in North Queensland differ widely from 
New Caledonia males, as also does the male of tasmaniensis, 
Sauss. The male of novocaledonica closely resembles that of 
aurulenta, Sm., a common Malayan species, but has the first 
abdominal segment shorter and less narrowed to the base and 
the seventh tergite and hypopygium narrower, the lateral 
spines of the latter being nearer to each other than in auru- 
lenta @. A female fiom New Caledonia, doubtless the 
female of novocaledonica, closely resembles typical aurulenta, 
but differs in the form of the apex of the radial cell, which is 
much more oblique and more distant from the costa, produced 
a little further beyond the second transverse cubital nervure, 
and more narrowly rounded at the apex; the orange abdo- 
minal fascie are also much broader than in typical Philippine 
specimens, though specimens from Ceram have the fascize 
almost as broad. The long calear of the hind tibia is twice 
as long as the shorter one, spathulate at the apex, and only a 
little shorter than the hind metatarsus in novocaledonica, 
whereas in awrulenta it is only about two-thirds of the length 
of the hind metatarsus and more acute at the apex. The 
puncturation of the scutellum and median segment is also 
distinctly sparser in novocaledonica than in aurulenta, espe- 
cially in the middle. I have not seen Philippine specimens 
of $ aurulenta, but several of both sexes from Ceram and 
Amboina. In the male of novocaledonica the radial cell is 
more truncate at the apex than in aurulenta. 
The male is the type. 
Hab. Mt. Tong-houé, January 26; 6 @f. Kuakué, 
May 14;3<¢6¢4. Paompai, September 15s2 Ba ge- 
KH. septemeincta, Fabr., is the male of E. radula, Fabr., 
and not connected with the present species as Saussure 
thought possible. 
