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slope at the base, shilling, sparsely punctured and covered with long, pale hair; the apex 

 is opaque, closely punctured and thickly covered with shorter black hair. Pygidium opaque, 

 punctured, the punctures clearly separated ; on the apical half is a broad, impressed line, 

 which becomes gradually wider towards the apex; it is aciculated. Legs thickly covered with 

 white hair; tibial spines long and black, the calcaria pale; the spines on the apex of the tarsi 

 bright rufous. 



This species cornes near to M. Urania Smith from Bornéo ; the latter is a larger and 

 stouter species ; its thorax is shorter and broader and not so clearly narrowed towards the 

 apex; it is entirely red ; its sides above are more uneven, more tuberculate; at the base it 

 is quite transverse, with sharp, outer edges, while they are broadly rounded in the présent 

 species. The colouration of the abdomen is the same in both species. In Urania the coloured 

 band and spot on the abdomen is darker, more fulvous in tint, the base of the thorax is 

 clearly, if slightly wider than the head, especially compared with the hinder edge of the 

 latter; the tubercle before the middle is distinct; there is a blunt rounded one at the base 

 and two, widely separated ones, behind the middle, the apical being the larger. The basai 

 two segments of the abdomen together are equal in length with the head and thorax united. 

 Pygidium rugose ; there is a smooth line down the centre, commencing near the base. Tibial 

 spines long, narrow and black; the tarsal spines rufous and the under side of the tarsi are 

 thickly covered with rufous, stiff pubescence ; calcaria pale rufous. The 2 nd abdominal segment 

 is punctured at the base, the punctures not forming distinct reticulations and not forming 

 longitudinal striations as in the species described above; towards the apex the punctuation 

 becomes very weak. The hair on the legs has a fulvous tinge. 



I hâve given the above détails regarding M. Urania because ANDRÉ, Termesz. Fiizet. 

 XIX, 12, appears to suspect that it may be identical with M. cor digéra Rad. and Sich., a 

 widely spread Malay species. The two, however, are clearly distinct, if any reliance is to be 

 placed on the figure of cordigera given by RadoSKOWSKI and SlCHEL, Horae Soc. Ent. 

 Ross., 1869, pi. VII, f. 8; in that figure cordigera is shown to hâve the base of the thorax 

 clearly rounded and narrowed while in Urania it is transverse, with sharp latéral angles. 



SCOLIIDAE. 



Discolia Sauss. 



1. Discolia culta Smith. 



Saussure, Cat. Sp. Gen. Scolia, 122, 123. Journ. Linn. Soc. 1S60, p. 117. 



Tawarin, June. 

 Described by Smith from Doré, New Guinea. 



Dielis Sauss. 

 1. Dielis de-Meijerei sp. nov. Ç. 

 Kwatisoré, July. 



