IFymenoj'lvni I r in Sew (.'aledonin. 2M 



Family Scoliidae, 



Scoh'a {DieHs) novocaledonica, nom. no v. 



Elia formnta^ Sauss. Spec. Oon. Sr.>lia, p. 20.S (180 J), c? (nee 2, nee 

 CJu.'r.). 



This mnle is described I)y Saussure as tlio male of/ormosa, 

 GutT., l)Ut Ilia detcrtuitiatioii i>i formosa was wron;^, the name 

 beinj^ applit-d hy him (o the common Australian specifs 

 previously di'.scril)ed by him as tasmanipiisis. True formosa, 

 Gui'i., was described iVoin a fcmnio taken in New Ireland, 

 and apparently always has the second recurrent nervure 

 incomplete. J^Ialcs tiiken with a female correspondiiif; to 

 Guerin's description in North (^^uecnsland differ widely from 

 New Caledonia males, as also does tho male of tasmanien.sis, 

 Sau.ss. The male of novocahduiica clo.sely resembles that of 

 auruleutd, Sm., a common Malayan species, but has the fir.^t 

 abdominal segment shorter and less narrowed to the base and 

 the seventh tergitc and hypopygium narrower, the lateral 

 spines of the latter boitig nearer to each other than in auru- 

 lenta ^J . A female from New Caledonia, doubtless the 

 female of novocahdonica, closely resemblf.s ty|)ical aurnlenla, 

 but ditfers in the form of the apex of the radial cell, which is 

 much more oblique and more distant from thocosta, produced 

 a little further beyonil the second transverse cubital nervure, 

 and more narrowly rounded at the apex ; the oran^jje abdo- 

 minal fasciie arc also much broader than in typical Philippine 

 specimens, though specimens from Ceram have the fascia; 

 almost as broad. The loiitj; calcar of the hind tibia is twice 

 as long as tlje shorter one, spathulatc at tiie apex, and only a 

 little shorter than the hind metatarsus in novocaledonici, 

 whereas in auridenta it is only aboat two-thirds of the lengtli 

 of the hind metatarsus and more acute at the apex. T!ie 

 puncturation of the scutollum and median segment is also 

 distinctly spars' r in tJ0i'(7t'(t/"/(/(/'ca than in aurulenta, espe- 

 cially in the middle. I have not seen Piiilippine specimons 

 of cJ aurulenta, but several ot both sexes from Ceram and 

 Amboina. In the male of uococaledonica the radial cell is 

 more truncate at the apex than in aurulenta. 



The male is the type. 



I/ab. Mt. Tong-houe, January 2G ; 6 c? (J . Ku:d<uc, 

 May 14 ; S <S (S . Paompai, September 15 ; 1 ? . 



E. septemcincta, Fabr., is the male of K. radula, Fabr., 

 and not connected with the present species as Saussuro 

 thought possible. 



