114 HYMENOPTERA. 
136. ScoLiA NIGRITA. B.M. 
Scolia nigrita, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 229.39 ; Syst. Piez. p. 240. 
4, § Cab. Mus. Dom. Banks. 
Guér. Voy. Abyss. vi. 353. 
Female. Length 8-103 lines.—Black: strongly punctured, 
the vertex and disk of the thorax smooth and shining ; wings 
clear hyaline, the anterior margin of the superior wings having 
a black stripe, extending from the base to the apex, a narrower 
stripe on the inferior margin of the superior wings, and slightly 
extending over the anterior margin of the posterior pair, runs 
from the base of the wings to the apex of the anal cell; the 
black stripes have a brilliant purple iridescence. Abdomen 
shining, strongly punctured at the sides, base, and apex, more 
finely and distantly in the middle ; the sides and apical segments 
fringed with black pubescence. 
Hab. Port Natal; Abyssinia. 
Note.—The neuration of the wings in this species is very in- 
constant: of four specimens received from Port Natal, one has 
the neuration of the first division; the other three have three 
discoidal cells, but the second recurrent nervure unites with the 
first, and is received by the second submarginal cell; this species 
would therefore fall into Guérin’s subgenus Liacos. 
The typical specimen in the Banksian Cabinet having been 
carefully examined, it appeared necessary to give the above de- 
tailed description, that of Fabricius in the Entomologia Syste- 
matica being too general to answer the purpose of correct dis- 
crimination. 
137. SCOLIA CAPITATA. 
Scolia capitata, Guér. Voy, Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 248. 
Hab. Senegal. 
138. ScoLIA DIMIDIATA. B.M. 
Scolia dimidiata, Guér. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. 247 3. 
Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 15. 2. 
In this species the two recurrent nervures unite, and are re- 
ceived in a single nerve by the second submarginal cell. 
Hab. The Moluccas; Isle of Bourou. 
139. ScoLIA FERRUGINEA. B.M. 
Scolia ferruginea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 231. 14; Syst. Piez. 
p. 241. 16, § Mus. Dom. Banks. 
Hab. New Holland. 
