94 HYMENOPTERA. 
39. ScoLIA MAURA. B.M. 
Scolia maura, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 233.20 3; Syst. Piez.p.243.27. 
Coqueb. Illust. Icon. Ins. dec. ii. 57. t. 13. f. A, B, C. 
Lucas, Explo. Sc. Algér. iii. 279. 286. 
Guér. Voy. Abyss. (Lefeb.) vi. 355. 
Hab. Africa; Algeria (Oran); Barbary; Abyssinia. 
40. ScoLIA MELANARIA. B.M. 
Scolia melanaria, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 38. 63 3. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope; Port Natal. 
41. ScoLia SENEX. 
Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, clothed entirely, but thinly, 
with ciereous pubescence ; the wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures 
pale ferruginous ; the superior wings have a dark cloud at their 
anterior margins beyond the marginal cell; the apical margins 
faintly clouded ; the tibize and tarsi ferruginous ; the two apical 
segments of the abdomen ferruginous, the apex armed with three 
black spines. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
42. ScoLIA AUREIPENNIS. B.M. 
Scolia aureipennis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 525.99. 
Hab. South Africa (Gambia). 
43. ScoLIA CYANEA. B.M. 
Scolia cyanea, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 525. 108. 
Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 38. 64. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope; Port Natal. 
44, ScoLIA FRATERNA. B.M. 
Female. Length 11 lines.—Black ; the crown of the head very 
smooth and shining; the prothorax, the mesothorax and scu- 
tellum with large deep punctures; the wings nearly black, and 
having a splendid violet iridescence. Abdomen entirely covered 
with distinct punctures, most sparing on the second and third 
segments in the middle. 
The male resembles the female, but is rather smaller. 
This species closely resembles S. cyanipennis of St. Fargeau, 
but is at once known from that species, which has the disk of 
the thorax very smooth, with a few widely scattered punctures, 
by having the disk covered with large deep punctures. 
Hab. Port Natal. 
