HYMENOPTERA, 107 
104. ScoLtA CcosTALIS. , B.M. 
Campsomeris costalis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 497.29. 
Hab. Brazil. 
105. ScoLia IRREGULARIS. B.M. 
Female. Length 11-12 lines.—Black: strongly punctured, 
the vertex and disk of the thorax having the punctures scattered ; 
the wings fuscous, the anterior margin of the superior wings 
darkest, and varied by irregularly scattered subhyaline spots ; 
the metathorax has a sericeous pile, the legs have their spines 
and pubescence black. Abdomen slightly sericeous, the basal 
segment having two transverse subquadrate yellow maculz ; the 
second segment has two subquadrate macule placed laterally, 
and the third an ovate spot on each side. 
Var. 8. The spots on the basal segment reduced to minute 
ovate spots; the maculz on the two following segments reduced 
to half their usual size. 
Male.—Resembles the female, but has the collar yellow, con- 
tinued to the insertion of the wings ; a minute dot on the tegule, 
and the seutellum and post-scutellum yellow. The basal seg- 
ment of the abdomen has a transverse subinterrupted line, 
widest towards the lateral margins; and the second and third 
segments a similar line at their apical margins ; the apex armed 
with three acute spies. 
Hab. Brazil. 
106. ScoL1A CONSPICUA. B.M. 
Female. Length 83 lines. — Black and shining, the face 
closely and deeply punctured, the vertex impunctate, its margin 
fringed with black hairs. Thorax: the prothorax deeply punc- 
tured, the mesothorax having a few scattered large punctures ; 
the scutellum and post-scutellum sulphur-yellow and impunctate, 
as well as the metathorax in the centre at its base; the wings 
subhyaline ; a black stripe, commencing near the apex of the 
externo-medial cell, occupies the first submarginal and mar- 
ginal cells, terminating a little before the apex of the wings. 
Abdomen : the basal segment sulphur-yellow above, its margins 
and extreme base black, the second segment having two large 
subovate maculze which occupy nearly the entire segment above. 
The legs have the spines black, and a scattered white pubescence 
intermixed ; at the base of the abdomen are a few scattered 
white hairs, the sides and apical segments fringed with black 
pubescence. 
Hab. Brazil (Para). (H.W. Bates.) 
