HYMENOPTERA. 



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104. SCOLIA COSTALIS. B.M. 



Carapsomeris costalis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 497. 2 J . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



105. SCOLIA IRREGULARIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 11-12 lines. Black: strongly punctured, 

 the vertex and disk of the thorax having the punctures scattered ; 

 the wings fuscous, the anterior margin of the superior wings 

 darkest, and varied by irregularly scattered subhyaline spots ; 

 the metathorax has a sericeous pile, the legs have their spines 

 and pubescence black. Abdomen slightly sericeous, the basal 

 segment having two transverse subquadrate yellow maculae ; the 

 second segment has two subquadrate maculae placed laterally, 

 and the third an ovate spot on each side. 



Var. )3. The spots on the basal segment reduced to minute 

 ovate spots ; the maculae on the two following segments reduced 

 to half their usual size. 



Male. Resembles the female, but has the collar yellow, con- 

 tinued to the insertion of the wings ; a minute dot on the tegulse, 

 and the scutellum and post-scutellum yellow. The basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen has a transverse subinterrupted line, 

 widest towards the lateral margins ; and the second and third 

 segments a similar line at their apical margins ; the apex armed 

 with three acute spines. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



106. SCOLIA CONSPICUA. B.M. 



Female. Length 8| lines. Black and shining, the face 

 closely and deeply punctured, the vertex impunctate, its margin 

 fringed with black hairs. Thorax : the prothorax deeply punc- 

 tured, the mesothorax having a few scattered large punctures ; 

 the scutellum and post-scutellum sulphur-yellow and impunctate, 

 as well as the metathorax in the centre at its base ; the wings 

 subhyaline ; a black stripe, commencing near the apex of the 

 externo-medial cell, occupies the first submarginal and mar- 

 ginal cells, terminating a little before the apex of the wings. 

 Abdomen : the basal segment sulphur-yellow above, its margins 

 and extreme base black, the second segment having two large 

 subovate maculae which occupy nearly the entire segment above. 

 The legs have the spines black, and a scattered white pubescence 

 intermixed; at the base of the abdomen are a few scattered 

 white hairs, the sides and apical segments fringed with black 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (H. W. Bates.) 



