104 HYMENOPTERA. 



90. SCOLIA FENESTRATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9-10 lines. Black : the head smooth and 

 shining, the face punctured and having a short black pubescence, 

 the clypeus shining, impunctate. Thorax coarsely punctured, 

 the punctures on the disk elongate ; wings hyaline, with a dark 

 fuscous cloud beyond the enclosed cells, which passes obliquely 

 across the apex of the inferior wings ; the spines and pubescence 

 of the legs black. Abdomen having a beautiful sericeous re- 

 flection, with a metallic brilliancy in certain lights; beneath 

 smooth and shining; the second and two following segments 

 have each a transverse line of punctures. 



Hob. Congo; Gambia. 



91. SCOLIA SENILIS. B.M. 



Elis senilis, Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 237. 35 $ ; Syst. Piez. p. 249. 3. 

 Scolia senilis, King, Weber fy Mohr, Beitr. i. 29. 17. 



Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 24. 24. 

 Colpa senilis, St. Faro. Hym. iii. 537. 5. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger. iii. 282. 292. 

 Tiphia thoracica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 254. 15$; Syst. 



Piez. p. 235. 20. 



Scolia collaris, Weber fy Mohr, Beitr. i. 32. 24. 

 Campsomeris collaris, Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 278. 281. 

 Scolia thoracica, Guer. Voy. Coquille,ii. pt. 2. 251. 



Hab. Barbary; Malabar; Sierra Leone; South Africa (Gambia). 



92. SCOLIA S-FASCIATA. B.M. 



Scolia 5-fasciata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 233. 22 ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 243. 28, $ Cab. Mus. Dom. Banks. 



Hab. Africa. 



93. SCOLIA UNDULATA. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black : the antennae, anterior mar- 

 gin of the clypeus and the mandibles ferruginous, the latter fus- 

 cous at their tips; the face has a rich golden pubescence. Thorax 

 clothed anteriorly with bright rufo-fulvous pubescence, that on 

 the sides and on the metathorax is golden ; wings fulvo-hyaline, 

 the anterior margin of the superior wings having a ferruginous 

 stain, the nervures and tegulae ferruginous ; the anterior margin 

 of the superior wings fuscous towards the apex ; the legs bright 

 ferruginous. Abdomen : the apical margins of the first, second 

 and third segments have a yellow marginal fascia, that on the 

 first emarginate in the middle, the second waved anteriorly, the 



