102 HYMENOPTERA. 



post-scutellum, and metathorax closely and strongly punctured ; 

 S. aureicollis has the metathorax impunctate. 

 Hab. Silhet ; Ceylon ; Philippine Islands. 



80. SCOLIA AURULENTA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black : the head and thorax above 

 clothed with rich fulvous pubescence, the mandibles rufo- 

 piceous, fringed with fulvous hairs ; the wings fulvo-hy aline, the 

 tarsi ferruginous, the pubescence and cilia of the legs of a rich 

 fulvo-ferruginous, the spines which arm the apex of the tibiae 

 rufo- testaceous. Abdomen : the apical margin of the first and 

 three following segments of a reddish -yellow ; the fasciae on the 

 second and third segments slightly emarginate and widest in the 

 middle, all the segments fringed with bright fulvo-ferruginous 

 hairs; beneath smooth and shining, having a few scattered 

 punctures, and the margins fringed with fulvous hairs. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



81. SCOLIA PRISMATICA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black : the head and thorax above 

 anteriorly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence ; the thorax 

 covered with strong punctures, the middle of the disk impunc- 

 tate; the tegulse pale testaceous, the wings fulvo-hyaline, the 

 nervures ferruginous; the legs have a glittering fulvo-ferru- 

 ginous pubescence, the calcaria and spines which arm the 

 tibia3 and joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the apical joints of 

 the tarsi dark rufo-piceous. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 having a splendid prismatic iridescence, the basal segment and 

 the apical margins of the second and two following segments 

 fringed with glittering pale fulvous hairs ; the margin of the fifth 

 segment and the sixth entirely covered with black pubescence. 

 Hab. Shanghai. 



82. SCOLIA SUBOBSCURA. 



Colpa infuscata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 537. 4 5 . 



Scolia infuscata, Eurm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 23. 23. 



Hab. Surinam. 



83. SCOLIA FUSCA. 



Scolia fusca, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 527. 15 ? . 

 Hab. Persia. 



