88 HYMENOPTERA. 
9. ScoLIA DECORATA. 
Scolia decorata, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 30. 39. 
Hab. Sumatra. 
10. ScoLIA ERRATICA. B.M. 
Scolia verticalis, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 37. 61 (nec 
Fabr.)3 9. 
Length 6-12 lines.—Black, punctured and pubescent; the head 
above the antennz, and also the base of the latter red ; the wings 
dark fuscous, with a purple iridescence ; abdomen black, and 
having a purple orviolet iridescence; the prothorax sometimes red. 
Hab. India; Sumatra. 
1]. ScoLia INSTABILIS. B.M, 
Female. Length 10 lines.—Head and thorax black, the face 
and thorax in front deeply punctured ; the clypeus, vertex and 
metathorax smooth, shinmg and impunctate, the latter covered 
with hoary pile; the flagellum bright orange, except the basal 
segment, which is black; wings dark fuscous, with a splendid 
violet iridescence. Abdomen black, with a changeable purple 
and violet reflection, having a small tubercle at the base. 
Male.—Bears a close resemblance to the female, but has the 
flagellum entirely orange-red beneath, above fuscous, except 
three or four of the apical joimts, which are orange; the head 
and thorax are entirely punctured, the basal segment being cam- 
panulate. 
Hab. India. 
12. Scotia PULCHRA. B.M. 
Female. Length 11 lines.—Head yellow; antenne clypeus 
and mandibles fulvous-red, tips of the latter black, the space 
between the ocelli black. Thorax rufo-testaceous, the protho- 
rax above and the tegule fulvous, the legs ferrugimous; the wings 
yellow-hyaline, of a deep yellow along their anterior margins, 
and having a dark purple spot at their apex beyond the marginal 
cell; the entire pubescence fulvo-ferruginous. Abdomen fulvo- 
ferrugincus, above black, except at the extreme base; the second 
segment has a broad yellow band, deeply emarginate in the 
middle of its posterior margin, and also an emargination on 
each side; the two following segments have a broad yellow 
fascia, interrupted in the middle; the second and third segments 
fringed with black pubescence on their apical margins; the fourth 
and fifth fringed with bright fulvous pubescence, entirely covered 
