HY.MENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. S3 



hyaline ; the radial cellules infuscated ; the nervures dark 

 rufous ; the second transverse cubital nervure is broadly round- 

 ed above. Abdomen thickly covered with white hair ; the 

 apices of the basal three segments are broadly yellow ; the black 

 on the bftsal segment is triangularly produced in the middle ; on 

 the second it is squarely produced, the dilated part being- more 

 broadly and more distinctly separated ; on the third the black 

 band becomes gradually narrowed towards the apex ; on the 

 fourth and fifth the black bands are not dilattd and extend to 

 the middle ; the apical three segments are entirely black. 



Scolia (Disrnlia) patara, sp. nov. 



Long : 17-19 mm. 



Hah. Santubong, Sarawak. 



This species comes very near to D. thyatira Cam. but the 

 two are, I consider, distinct. D. patara is smaller, it wants the 

 curved yellow marks on the top of the clypeus, there is no 

 yellow mark below the antennge, and the lower part of the 

 radius is broadly rounded outwardly and does not form an angle 

 with the upper abs< issa. 



Head black, the front, vertex and the upper half of the 

 outer orbits narrowly orange-yellow ; the front and vertex 

 thickly covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the face more 

 sparsely with long black hair The front and vertex strongly, 

 the face, if anything, more strongly punctured, but not quite so 

 closely ; the clypeus is almost impunctate ; the occiput is thickly 

 covered with black hair. The orange band on the pronotum is 

 narrowed behind, is broad, and covered with fulvous hair; the 

 mesonotum is sparsely punctured and is thickly covered with 

 short black hair ; the scutellum is covered with long black hair 

 except at the apex ; the post scutellum is much more sparsely 

 haired. The median segment is thickly covered with long 

 black hair ; as are also the pleune ; the metapleurce have also a 

 pale pubescence. Wings uniformly fuscous-violet and mode- 

 rately iridescent. Abdomen, except in the middle, thickly 

 covered with black hair, smooth, shining, and, especially on the 

 middle segments, bearing brilliant blue and violet tints, this 

 being also the case with the ventral surface. 



