84 HYMENOPTEHA FROM SARAWAK. 



Scolia (Discolia) acntinerva, sp. nov. 



Black ; the apices of the basal four abdominal segments 

 lined with yellow ; the wings yellowish-hyaline, the cubital 

 cellules with a more decided yellow tinge than the rest; the 

 head and thorax covered with a pale golden pile and thickly 

 with pale fulvous hair ; the basal three segments of the abdomen 

 have blue and violet tints and are fringed with pale fulvous hair ; 

 the hair on the apical segment is long, dense and black 9 . 



Long : 23 mm. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Antenme black, the scape shining and sparsely covered with 

 long pale fulvous hair. The head, except on the ocellar region, 

 is thickly covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the vertex is 

 more sparsely covered than the front ; the vertex is shining and 

 is strongly, but not closely, punctured ; the front is impunctate 

 and is furrowed down the middle. The clypeus is fringed above 

 with long fulvous hair, is smooth above, the apex is irregularly, 

 stoutly, longitudinally, striated ; the extreme apex is depressed, 

 smooth, and more or less piceous. The apices of the mandibles 

 are piceous. The mesonotum is strongly punctured, except in 

 the middle behind ; the scutellum is, if anything, more strongly 

 and closely punctured, except at the apex, which is smooth ; the 

 post-scutellum is more closely punctured. The golden pile on 

 trie median segment is dense, except laterally at the l>ase, it is 

 closely punctured. The golden pile on the pleurce is very dense. 

 Legs black, covered with fulvous hair. The long spines on the 

 front tarsi are bright rufous; on the four hinder they are of a 

 paler rufous colour ; the tibial spines are pale yellowish ; the 

 calcaria are of a still paler yellow colour. The malar nervures 

 are rufous ; the transverse cubital nervure is sharply bent out- 

 wardly in the middle and projects there in a short branch. The 

 abdominal segments are smooth, impunctate and are sparsely 

 covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the micaceous tints on the 

 basal three segments are very distinct in certain lights ; the 

 hairs on the hypopygium are stout, stiff and black. 



The clypeus is subtrian^ular and is broadly, roundly con- 

 vex ; its apex in the middle is transverse, its sides broadly 

 rounded. 



