88 HYMENOPTERA. 



9. SCOLIA DECORATA. 



Scolia decorata, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 30. 39. 

 Hob. Sumatra. 



10. SCOLIA ERRATICA. B.M. 

 Scolia verticalis, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 37. 61 (nee 



Fabr.) $ ? . 



Length 6-12 lines. Black, punctured and pubescent; the head 

 above the antennae, and also the base of the latter red ; the wings 

 dark fuscous, with a purple iridescence ; abdomen black, and 

 having a purple or violet iridescence; the prothorax sometimes red. 



Hob. India; Sumatra. 



11. SCOLIA INSTABILIS. B.M. 

 Female. Length 10 lines. Head and thorax black, the face 



and thorax in front deeply punctured ; the clypeus, vertex and 

 metathorax smooth, shining and impunctate, the latter covered 

 with hoary pile ; the flagellum bright orange, except the basal 

 segment, which is black ; wings dark fuscous, with a splendid 

 violet iridescence. Abdomen black, with a changeable purple 

 and violet reflection, having a small tubercle at the base. 



Male. Bears a close resemblance to the female, but has the 

 flagellum entirely orange-red beneath, above fuscous, except 

 three or four of the apical joints, which are orange ; the head 

 and thorax are entirely punctured, the basal segment being cam- 

 panulate. 



Hab. India. 



12. SCOLIA PULCHRA. B.M. 



Female. Length 1 1 lines. Head yellow ; antennae clypeus 

 and mandibles fulvous-red, tips of the latter black, the space 

 between the ocelli black. Thorax rufo-testaceous, the protho- 

 rax above and the tegulae fulvous, the legs ferruginous ; the wings 

 yellow-hyaline, of a deep yellow along their anterior margins, 

 and having a dark purple spot at their apex beyond the marginal 

 cell ; the entire pubescence fulvo-ferruginous. Abdomen fulvo- 

 ferruginous, above black, except at the extreme base ; the second 

 segment has a broad yellow band, deeply emarginate in the 

 middle of its posterior margin, and also an emargination on 

 each side ; the two following segments have a broad yellow 

 fascia, interrupted in the middle; the second and third segments 

 fringed with black pubescence on their apical margins; the fourth 

 and fifth fringed with bright fulvous pubescence, entirely covered 



