116 HYMENOPTERA. 
145. ScoLia ZONATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 13-14 lines.—Black : the antenne, margin 
of the clypeus and the mandibles ferruginous ; the scape fuscous 
above ; the face covered with ochraceous pubescence ; the vertex 
smooth and shining, its posterior margin punctured, and frmged 
with ochraceous pubescence. Thorax: the hinder margins of 
the prothorax and of the tegulz, the tibiz and tarsi, ferruginous ; 
the imner spurs which arm the apex of the posterior tibie as long 
as the basal jomt of the tarsus, very slender and acute at their 
apex ; wings flavo-hyaline, slightly clouded at their apex, and of 
a reddish-yellow at the anterior margins of the superior wings ; 
the nervures ferruginous; the prothorax, metathorax and legs 
are thinly clothed with ochraceous pubeseence. Abdomen: the 
second, third and fourth segments have a broad yellow fascia at 
their basal margins, the two latter continuous beneath, the three 
apical segments entirely yellow; the base has a thin ochraceous 
pubescence, that on the apical segments ferruginous. 
The male closely resembles the female, the flagellum being 
ferruginous, the clypeus yellow, and having in the centre an 
angular black spot; the four apical segments of the abdomen 
entirely yellow. 
Hab. New Holland. 
Genus 12. POLOCHRUM. 
Polochrum, Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 20 (1805). 
1. PoLocHRUM REPANDUM. 
Polochrum repandum, Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 20. t.2.f.8a92,62. 
Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. iv. 109. 
St. Farg. & Serv. Ency. Méth. x. 174. 
Van d. Lind. Obs. Hym. Eur. p. 302. 1. 
St. Farg. Hym. ii. 566. 1. 
Hab. Geneva; Bologna; Piedmont. 
Genus 13. SAPYGA. 
Apis, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 953 (1766). 
Scolia, pt., Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 355 (1775). 
Sirex, pt., Fabr. Mant. i. 257 (1787). 
Sapyga, Latr. Précis, p. 134 (1769). 
Masaris, Panz. Faun. Germ. fase. 47 (1801). 
Hellus, pt., Fabr. Syst, Piez. p. 246 (1804). 
