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third emarginate, the fifth and sixth segments rufo-testaceous, 

 and clothed with ferruginous pubescence ; beneath, the margins 

 of the second and third segments yellow, the margins ciliated 

 with ferruginous pubescence. 



Hab. Africa. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



94. SCOLIA SIGNATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black: the face, thorax above and 

 the legs have an ochraceous pubescence ; the wings fusco-hyaline, 

 the nervures rufo-piceous. Abdomen: the three basal segments 

 yellow above ; the extreme base, and the basal margins of the 

 second and third segments black, the black fasciae on the two 

 latter recurved laterally ; the three apical margins black. 



Hab. South Africa (Gambia). 



95. SCOLIA 7-ciNCTA. B.M. 

 Scolia 7-cincta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 249. 4 $ . 



Male. Length 7-8 lines. Black : the outer orbits of the eyes, 

 the clypeus and mandibles pale yellow ; the tips of the latter 

 rufo-piceous, and a minute black dot in the centre of the clypeus; 

 a narrow yellow line at the inner orbits of the eyes, not entering 

 their emargination. Thorax : the collar, a spot on the tubercles, 

 the tegulae in front, the scutellum and post-scutellum yellow ; the 

 anterior coxae in front, the femora beneath, the tibiae in front, 

 and the basal joints of the anterior and intermediate tarsi, pale 

 yellow ; the calcaria pale testaceous ; the wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures ferruginous. Abdomen having a violet iridescence, the 

 margins of the segments have a yellow fascia, the three first 

 broadest, the second emarginate in the middle, the third emar- 

 ginate on each side ; sometimes the sixth has a very narrow 

 yellow margin ; the seventh immaculate. 



This species closely resembles the 5-fasciata of Fabricius, but 

 the bands on the abdomen are narrower, and the pubescence is 

 more sparing ; it is the true Elis 7-cincta of the Sy sterna Pieza- 

 torum, as appears from an examination of the typical specimen 

 in the Banksian cabinet ; the above description will serve for its 

 more ready determination. 



Hab. Australia (Port Essington, &c.). 



96. SCOLIA RADULA. B.M. 



Tiphia radula, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 226. 11; Syst. Piez. p. 235. 15, 

 $ Cab. Mus. Dom. Banks. 



Hab. Australia. 



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