402 Major C. G. Nurse on neio 



tlie female. I have now obtained that sex, of which the 

 following is a description : — 



Similar to the male, but more slenderly built, the head 

 almost impunctate ; clypeus with the centre much raised, 

 shining; the ground-colour is dark red, and not black, the 

 head, except the mandibles and antennae, being entirely 

 orange-yellow, and the markings on the thorax and abdomen 

 of the same shade, and not bright yellow as in the male. 



Long. 12-13 raillim. 



Ilah. Deesa. 



Scolia vivid a J Smith. 



The female of this species has not, I believe, been hitherto 

 described. 



Head smooth, except the portion of tlie front near the ba=!e 

 of antennae, which is somewhat closely but irregularly 

 punctured, and a few punctures on the vertex near ocelli ; 

 thorax closely punctured, the punctures, especially those on 

 the median segment, being sliallow ; abdomen impunctate. 

 Dark red, the clypeus being somewhat lighter ; a broad 

 irregularly-shaped transverse band across the head in front 

 of the anterior ocellus, reaching into the emarginations of the 

 eyes, the vertex posteriorly, and the cheeks, yellow ; the 

 second, third, and fourth abdominal segments are black above, 

 with broad median yellow bands, narrowed in the centre. 

 Wings similar to those of the male. Pubescence on the red 

 portion of the body and on the legs rufous, elsewhere greyish. 



Long. 16-17 millim. 



Hah. Deesa ; not common. 



Elis ruhricata, sp. n. 



($ . Head, thorax and abdomen pubescent, the pubescence 

 on the former two hiding the sculpturing, the latter smooth 

 and shining; clypeus convex, transverse anteriorly, bare and 

 shining in the centre ; median segment short, the sides 

 ruunded posteriorly ; first abdominal segment long, sub- 

 petiolate, and much constricted. Black : the clypeus, except 

 a large triangular spot in the centre, and a line on the 

 anterior and intermediate tibiae above, pale yellow; an 

 obscure narrow apical band on first, wide apical bands on the 

 second and third, the whole of the fourth, fifth and sixth, 

 and the apex of seventh abdominal segments, dark red, the 

 red band on the third segment eraarginate in the centre ; 

 abdomen black below ; pubescence hoary grey, except on the 

 red portion of the abdomen, where it is fulvous red. Wings, 



