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golden pile and with longish fulvous hair. Mesonotum, except 

 in the middle behind, strongly punctured ; the scutellum is more 

 closely punctured, except on the apex and in the middle at the 

 base; the post-seutellum is closely and strongly punctured, ex- 

 cept in the middle. The basal part of the median segment is close- 

 ly, but not strongly, punctured. The second transverse cubital 

 nervure is broadly and roundly curved outwardly below the 

 middle. Legs black, thickly covered with fulvous hair ; the 

 tibial and tarsal spines are rufous; the calcaria pale; abdomen 

 black ; the basal three segments with violet and blue micaceous 

 tints ; the basal segments thickly covered with long pale hair ; 

 smooth : the apical fringes are pale ; the hair on the apical 

 three segments is long and black ; the pile on the pygidium is 

 black. 



Comes near to S. deutinerva ; it is a stouter built insect ; its 

 clypeus is flat, not roundly convex ; its second transverse cubi- 

 tal nervure is broadly rounded and the abdomen wants the 

 yellow bands. 



Scvlla apherema, sp. no v. * 



lilack ; the front and vertex, the eye incision and the outer 

 orbits, orange-red ; wings fuscous-violaceous. Q. 



Long : 17 mm. 



Ilab. Borneo. 



Antennae black : the scape and second joint smooth and 

 shining, the fiagellum opaque. Head ; the front, vertex, eye in- 

 cisions and the outer orbits — wide above, narrowing below — to 

 near the bottom, orange-red. Front and vertex shining, distinct- 

 ly, but not very closely, punctured, except on the hinder edge 

 of the vertex ; and somewhat thickly covered with shining ful- 

 vous pubescence. The antennal tubercles and the parts below 

 the antenna; deep black ; the clypeus smooth and shining, the 

 rest closely and rather strongly punctured. Mandibles black, 

 smooth. Thorax above thickly covered with stiff black hair; 

 the apical slope of the median segment is covered with white 

 hair and densely with silvery pubescence ; the propleune cover- 

 ed with long dark, the meso- with long pale, pubescence ; the 

 metapleurte thickly covered with silvery pile. Mesonotum 

 strongly and closely punctured ; the middle behind smooth ; the 



