Mr. Iv. Vj. TiUMCi- on Fossoriiil IIi/menoj>tera. G23 



female the clypeus is marked with a strongly margined 

 triangular area, and the third cubital cell is very rarely 

 present ; the colour is black in all specimens I have seen, 

 and the sj)ine of the jwsterior tibia is more strongly spatu- 

 late than in other specimens. The form from S.W. Persia 

 has the clypeus finely and closely punctured and the pubes- 

 cence more golden, but does not dilfer much otherwise from 

 the Spanish form. The male of the Biskra form has the 

 antennae two-thirds as long as the costa, the usual length 

 in other localities being little more than one-half the length 

 of the costa; the third abscissa of the radius is scarcely 

 two-thirds of the length of the second transverse cubital 

 nervure, instead of a little longer as in the normal form, 

 the radial cell is shorter on the costa than the stigma and 

 truncate at the apex, in the normal form very broadly 

 rounded at the apex and longer than the stigma ; the fifth 

 dorsal segment is without an apical baud and the seventh 

 dorsal segment is red. The shape of the third cul)ital cell 

 in Albanian specimens is similar to that in Biskra specimens, 

 and the red form of the female seems to be prevalent in 

 Albania. 



Further observations on the desert forms are needed. 



Scolia [Dielis) lindenii, Lep., subsp. ceijlonica, Kirby. 



Campsomeris ceijlonica, Kirbv, Trans. Eut. Soc. London, p. 4o2 

 (1889). J (nee $). 



This seems to me to be tlie Ceylon form of lindenii ; but 

 the male differs from the typical form iu the more elongate 

 form of the three basal abdominal segments, the fulvous 

 colour of the abdominal bands and the legs, and the more 

 distinct dark patch at the apex of the fore wing. The 

 female differs from the form of lindenii with fulvous pubes- 

 cence in the smooth area on the disc of the mesonotum and 

 on the middle of the scutcllum, and in the greater develop- 

 ment of the dark apical patch on the fore wing. The 

 female described by Kirby as ceylonica is really a variety of 

 iris, Lep., and is not the same species as the male. I have 

 taken ceylonica J coupled with lindenii ? at Kandy, and can 

 therefore speak with absolute certainty. 



S. prisniatica, Sm., seems to be a variety of lindenii. 



Kirby's mistake in associating the sexes is not surprising, 

 as the colour is very similar. 



