96 ; HYMENOPTERA. 
cells, these portions being covered with short ferruginous pubes- 
cence. Abdomen: the first segment having a minute tubercle 
in the centre at its base; the punctures small and scattered on 
the three basal segments, the basal segment and the basal half 
of the second covered with pale sericeous pile; the basal and 
three apical segments dark rufo-testaceous. 
Male. Length 13 lines.—Head and thorax dark fusco-ferru- 
ginous, the flagellum fulvous; the wings nearly as in the other 
sex, but having the anterior margins less bright, but similarly 
pubescent. Abdomen having a splendid purple and green iri- 
descence, closely and moderately punctured ; the sides and apex 
have a fringe of black pubescence. 
Hab. Madagascar. (Coll. F. Smith.) 
50. ScoLia soRor. B.M. 
Scolia cyanipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 524. 7 (nee Fabr.). 
Hab. Australia. 
51. ScoLIA VERTICALIS. B.M. 
Scolia verticalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 234. 25; Syst. Piez. p. 244. 
33, and Cab. Mus. Dom. Banks. 
Hab. New Holland. 
52. ScoLia VIRIDIPENNIS. B.M, 
Scolia cyanipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 524. 7 (nee Fabr.). 
Hah. New Holland. 
53. ScoLIA MACULATA. B.M. 
Scolia maculata, Guér. Voy. Cog. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 255. 
Hab. Georgia. 
54. ScoLiIA ORNATA. B.M. 
Scolia maculata, Guér. Voy. Cog. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 255 (nec 
Drury). 
Hab. Georgia. 
55. ScoLiA AULICA. 
Scolia aulica, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 33. 48, 
Hab. South Carolina, 
