HYMENOPTERA. 95 



45. SCOLIA RUFICORNIS. B.M. 



Scolia ruficornis, Fabr. Ent.Syst.ii.23Q. 9 ; Syst.Piez.ip.24l. 11. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 524. 8 $ . 



Guer. Voy. Abyss. (Lefeb.) vi. 353. 



Eurm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 38. 62 <? ? . 

 Scolia castanea, Perch, Gen. Ins. Hym. t. 2. 



Hab. Senegal; Abyssinia. 



46. SCOLIA RUFIPES. B.M. 



Male. Length 6 lines. Blue-black, the abdomen having a 

 bright violet iridescence, and the entire insect a thinly scattered 

 hoary pubescence ; the mandibles, apical half of the femora, the 

 tibiae and tarsi, ferruginous ; the tarsi slightly fuscous above ; 

 wings dark fuscous, with a bright coppery iridescence, inclining 

 to purple in certain lights. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



47. SCOLIA VIOLACEA. 



Campsomeris violacea, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 502. 11$. 

 Hab. Port Praslin ; New Ireland. 



48. SCOLIA IRIDICOLOR. 



Male. Length 10 lines. Head and thorax dark fusco-ferru- 

 ginous ; the face and vertex covered with brown pubescence ; the 

 antennae reddish-yellow, darkest towards their base, the clypeus 

 and mandibles rufo-testaceous. Thorax thinly clothed in front 

 with red-brown pubescence ; the legs dark rufo-testaceous, the 

 anterior and intermediate tarsi paler ; wings flavo-hyaline, with 

 bright yellow stains towards their base, and on the anterior mar- 

 gin of the superior pair. Abdomen splendidly iridescent, having 

 purple, violet and blue tints intermixed, changing in different 

 lights ; the apex rufo-testaceous, with a few scattered short fer- 

 ruginous hairs. 



Hab. Madagascar. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



49. SCOLIA HIRTIPENNIS. 



Female. Length 14 lines. Black ; the head dark fusco-ferru- 

 ginous, the scape of the same colour, the flagellum ferruginous. 

 Thorax strongly and closely punctured on the disk, the metatho- 

 rax more finely punctured and covered with a sericeous pile ; 

 wings fuscous, with a bright purple iridescence; the anterior 

 margins of the superior wings are pale reddish-yellow 7 , which 

 occupies the externo-medial, the marginal and first submarginal 



