448 Mr. F. Smith on new Species of 



Male. Length I5 line. Dark fusco-ferruginous ; mandibles 

 and antenna rufo-testaceous ; ocelli prominent, with a deeply 

 impressed line in front of the anterior one. Thorax oblong, 

 narrowed posteriorly ; the wings colourless hyaline ; legs white, 

 with the femora slightly fuscous in the middle. Abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, smooth, and shining. 



Found under bark. (Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Monomorium elongatum . 



Female. Length 2 lines. Reddish brown ; head oblong, 

 slightly narrowed behind the eyes, truncate posteriorly ; ocelli 

 glassy, the anterior one placed in a deep fossulet ; mandibles 

 and antenna?, pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax oblong, narrowed 

 behind ; the mctathorax truncate ; legs pale rufo-testaceous, 

 the femora slightly fuscous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, smooth, 

 and shining, with a thin scattered pubescence. 



Worke7\ Length 1 line. Reddish brown, shining, with the 

 mandibles, antennse, and legs pale testaceous ; the head oblong, 

 the sides nearly parallel, truncate behind, with the angles 

 rounded. Thorax strangulated a little beyond the middle ; 

 the mctathorax without spines. Abdomen ovate, smooth, and 

 shining. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Scoliidse. 

 Scolia rufa, St.-Fargeau. 



Male. Length 7| lines. Black, the pubescence fulvo-fer- 

 ruginous ; the face densely pubescent ; the clypeus and man- 

 dibles yellow, the former with a large triangular black macula 

 in the middle, the latter rufo-piceous at their apex and nar- 

 rowly so on their lower margin ; the head pubescent behind. 

 Thorax pubescent, the mctathorax densely so ; wings fusco- 

 hyaline, the nervures black ; slightly iridescent ; the anterior 

 legs with the tips of the femora above, also thetibiaj and tarsi 

 above, yellow ; the tips of the joints of the tarsi black ; the 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae yellow above, their tarsi en- 

 tirely so, with the tips of the joints black ; all the calcaria 

 pale testaceous. Abdomen with broad yellow fascia, the 

 fasciae emarginate in the middle and at the sides ; the apical 

 segment black, smooth, shining, with a few strong punctures 

 at the base, the rest of the abdomen with scattered shallow 

 punctures ; beneath, the segments have narrow yellow apical 

 marginal fascise, and are fringed with fulvous pubescence. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



