SCOLIID^. 177 



5. Rhagigaster clypeatus. 



Male. Length 8 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax closely punc- 

 tured and suhopaque ; ahdomen shining, and more finely and 

 distantly punctured ; the clypeus yellow, truncate anteriorly, and 

 longitudinally striated ; the base of the mandibles with an indistinct 

 yellow spot. The wings subhyalino, and having a violet irides- 

 cence ; the metathorax more finely punctured than the meso- 

 thorax, and with a little hoary pubescence at the sides. The basal 

 margins of the segments of the abdomen depressed ; the sixth 

 ventral segment with a short lateral spine, the seventh with a 

 recurved spine that has a short tooth or spine at its base. 



Hah. Australia. 



ELAPHROPTERA, Guerin. 



1. Elaphroptera carbonaria. 



Male. Length 12-12i lines. — Shining black, closely and finely 

 punctured ; wings hyaline, with their apical portion clouded. 

 Head transversely subquadrate ; the clypeus carinate, its anterior 

 margin deeply emarginate and acutely bidentate ; the sides of the 

 face, below the antennae, concave ; the antennae extending to the 

 middle of the first segment of the abdomen, the joints of the 

 antennae arcuate. The anterior margin of the prothorax acute, 

 the scutellum forming an elevated tubercle ; the wings hyaline 

 from the base to the marginal cell, in which is a dark fuscous cloud, 

 which extends thence to the apex of the wings, but of a lighter 

 tint ; the nervures brown-black, those of the anterior wings mar- 

 gined with fuscous ; the apex of the wings with a violet iridescence. 

 Abdomen subpetiolate, the margins of the segments depressed ; the 

 apical segment impunctate at the base and rugose at the apex, 

 and, as well as the ventral segment, rounded at the apex. 



Hah. Rio, 



SCOLIIDyE, Leach. 



MYZINE. 



Scolia (pt.), Fahr. Ent. Sijst. ii. 236. 

 Elis (pt.), Fabr. Syst. Piez. 232. 

 Tiphia (pt.), Fabr. Sj/st. Fiez. 232. 

 Sapyga (pt.), Panz. Faun. Germ. 87. 19. 

 Myzine, Latr. Hist, Nat. des Ins. xiii. 269 

 Plesia, Jurine, Hym. (1817). 



