102 HYMENOPTERA. 
post-scutellum, and metathorax closely and strongly punctured ; 
S. aureicollis has the metathorax impunctate. 
Hab. Silhet ; Ceylon; Philippine Islands. 
80. ScoLIA AURULENTA. B.M. 
Female. Length 9 lines.—Black : the head and thorax above 
clothed with rich fulvous pubescence, the mandibles rufo- 
piceous, fringed with fulvous hairs; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the 
tarsi ferruginous, the pubescence and cilia of the legs of a rich 
fulvo-ferruginous, the spines which arm the apex of the tibiz 
rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: the apical margin of the first and 
three following segments of a reddish-yellow ; the fascize on the 
second and third segments slightly emargmate and widest in the 
middle, all the segments fringed with bright fulvo-ferruginous 
hairs; beneath smooth and shining, having a few scattered 
punctures, and the margins fringed with fulvous hairs. 
Hab. Philippine Islands. 
81. ScoLIA PRISMATICA. B.M. 
Female. Length 9 lines.—Black : the head and thorax above 
anteriorly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence; the thorax 
covered with strong punctures, the middle of the disk impunc- 
tate; the tegule pale testaceous, the wings fulvo-hyaline, the 
nervures ferruginous; the legs have a glittering fulvo-ferru- 
ginous pubescence, the calcaria and spines which arm the 
tibize and joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous; the apical jomts of 
the tarsi dark rufo-piceous. Abdomen smooth and shining, 
having a splendid prismatic iridescence, the basal segment and 
the apical margins of the second and two following segments 
fringed with glittering pale fulvous hairs ; the margin of the fifth 
segment and the sixth entirely covered with black pubescence. 
Hab. Shanghai. 
82. ScOLIA SUBOBSCURA. 
Colpa infuscata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 537.49. 
Scolia infuscata, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 23. 23. 
Hab. Surinam. 
83. ScoLIA FUSCA. 
Scolia fusca, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 527, 159. 
Hab. Persia. 
