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with scattered fulvous hairs; beneath fulvo-ferruginous, the third, 
fourth and fifth segments broadly dark rufo-piceous at their base. 
Hab. India. 
13. ScoOLIA SPECIFICA. 
Female. Length 9 lines.—Black ; the mandibles ferruginous 
at their apex; a yellow stripe on each side of the prothorax, 
before the insertion of the wings, the latter fuscous, with a slight 
purple iridescence towards their apex; thesecond, third and fourth 
segments have on each side a large yellow macula, pointed within ; 
the two first sometimes, the third usually united; the macule 
on the second segment have a black dot towards their oute rmar- 
gins; the fifth segment having two minute yellow spots in the 
middle. 
Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
14. Sco“ta VIVIDA. B.M. 
Male. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the clypeus, mandibles and 
outer orbits of the eyes yellow ; the prothorax above, the collar, 
a large patch beneath the wings, a narrow stripe on the breast 
in front, the anterior coxe in front, the tibiz and tips of the 
femora above, the basal jomt of the anterior and intermediate 
tarsi above, and the scutellum and post-scutellum, yellow ; the 
wings subhyaline, with some fusco-ferruginous stains towards 
the anterior margins of the superior pair, and a dark fuscous 
spot beyond the marginal cell, the nervures ferruginous, tegule 
testaceous. Abdomen yellow above; the apical margins of the 
four basal segments have a narrow black fascia; the three apical 
segments black ; the femora and metathorax ferruginous, the 
latter more or less stained with black at the base above. 
Hab. Madras. 
15. ScoLra FERVIDA. 
Scolia fervida, Smith, Ann. § Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 2nd Ser. 1852, 
469. 
Hab. E. Indies (Poona). (Mus. India House.) 
This is possibly an extremely highly coloured form of S. 4-pus- 
tulata, but the red colouring occupies the second and two fol- 
lowing segments, also the basal margin of the fifth: a series of 
varieties would probably unite it to 4-pustulata. 
16. ScoLia OBSCURA. B.M. 
Scolia obscura, St. Farg. Hym. iti. 527.149. 
Hab. India. 
