HYMENOPTERA. 95 
45. SCOLIA RUFICORNIS. B.M. 
Scolia ruficornis, Fabr. Ent. Syst.ii.230.9 ; Syst, Piez.p.241. 11. 
St. Farg. Hym. ii. 524.88. 
Guér. Voy. Abyss. (Lefeb.) vi. 353. 
Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, 1. 38. 623 2. 
Seolia castanea, Perch. Gen. Ins. Hym. t. 2. 
Hab. Senegal; Abyssinia. 
46. ScoLIA RUFIPES. B.M. 
Male. Length 6 lines.—Blue-black, the abdomen having a 
bright violet iridescence, and the entire insect a thinly scattered 
hoary pubescence ; the mandibles, apical half of the femora, the 
tibia and tarsi, ferruginous; the tarsi slightly fuscous above ; 
wings dark fuscous, with a bright coppery iridescence, inclining 
to purple in certain lights. 
Hab. Port Natal. 
47. SCOLIA VIOLACEA. 
Campsomeris violacea, St. Farg. Hym. ui. 502. 119. 
Hab. Port Praslin; New Ireland. 
48. ScoLIA IRIDICOLOR. 
Male. Length 10 lines.—Head and thorax dark fusco-ferru- 
ginous ; the face and vertex covered with brown pubescence ; the 
antennz reddish-yellow, darkest towards their base, the clypeus 
and mandibles rufo-testaceous. Thorax thinly clothed in front 
with red-brown pubescence ; the legs dark rufo-testaceous, the 
anterior and intermediate tarsi paler ; wings flavo-hyaline, with 
bright yellow stains towards their base, and on the anterior mar- 
gin of the superior pair. Abdomen splendidly iridescent, having 
purple, violet and blue tints intermixed, changing in different 
lights ; the apex rufo-testaceous, with a few scattered short fer- 
ruginous hairs. 
Hab. Madagascar. (Coll. F. Smith.) 
49. ScoLIA HIRTIPENNIS. 
Female. Length 14 lines.—Black ; the head dark fuseo-ferru- 
ginous, the scape of the same colour, the flagellum ferruginous. 
Thorax strongly and closely punctured on the disk, the metatho- 
rax more finely punctured and covered with a sericeous pile ; 
wings fuscous, with a bright purple iridescence; the anterior 
margins of the superior wings are pale reddish-yellow, which 
occupies the externo-medial, the marginal and first submarginal 
