Genera of the Scoliiclse. 483 



very little narrowed anteriorly j scutellum more than half as 

 long as the mesonotum and rounded at the apex ; median 

 segment nearly three times as broad as long, obliquely sloped 

 posteriorly. Abdomen finely shagreent d, fusiform, as loiio- 

 as the head and thorax combined. Second abscissa of the 

 radius half as long again as the first and fully half as lono- 

 as the third; the first recurrent nervure received just before 

 tiie middle of the second cubital cell, the second just before 

 the middle of the third cubital celL The cubital nervure 

 of the hind wing originates at the apex of the submedian 

 celL 



Black; clypeus, posterior margin of the pronotum, a spot 

 on the posterior margin of the mesoiiotura^ a large spot on 

 the postscutellum, the base of the tegulas, two spots on each 

 side at the apex of the median segment, a spot on each side 

 of each of the five basal abdominal segments, the base of the 

 seventh segment, the apex of the anterior femora, the anterior 

 tibise above, the base ot the intermediate and posterior femora, 

 and the basal joints of all the tarsi yellowish white. Wings 

 hyaline, the anterior pair with a laint fuscous tint, nervures 

 black. The division of the first cubital cell is indicated by 

 a colourless scar. 



Length 12, exp. 17 mm. 



Hab. Townsville, Q. 



Anthohosca Jlavicornis, Sauss. 



Cosila flavicornis, Sauss., Grandidier, Hist. Madagascar, xx. p. 233 

 (1892), $. 



Hah. Victoria (C. French) ; Tasmania; Cairns, Q. 



The specimen from Victoria seems to be typical; that 

 from Tasmania has the scape and all the tibiae and tarsi 

 fulvous ; that from Cairns whilst differing little in colour 

 from the typical form has the second abscissa of the radius 

 fully as long as the first, whereas the two southern specimens 

 have it distinctly shorter. The wings are darker in the 

 Victorian specimen than in the others. 



As there is a good deal of confusion in connection with 

 some of the Fabiician species of Tiphia and Scolia in the 

 Banksian collection, a list of them with remarks may be 

 useful. 



Genus Tiphia, Fabr. 



1. T. femoraia, Fabr. — The well known European species. 



2. T. quinquecincia, Fabr. — Type in Banksian collection. This is 



