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MR. F. SMITH OK IIYMENOPTEKOTTS INSECTS 



The sexes here described are distinguished as such by Mr. Wallace, who 

 doubtless captured them in coitu. 



Fam. SCOLIAD^E, Leach. 

 Gen. Tiphia, Fair. 



1. Tiphia flavipennis, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 91. 3. 

 Hab. Gilolo. Sarawak. 



Gen. Scolia, Fair. 

 Div. 1. Two submarginal cells and one recurrent nervure. 



1. Scolia captiva. S. atra, thorace abdomineque opalino pulcherrime 

 lavatis ; alis fuscis cupreo iridescentibus. 



Male. Length 10 lines. Black, with a beautiful opaline iridescence 

 intermixed with shades of blue, purple, and green, thinly covered with 

 black pubescence, which is most dense on the sides of the thorax, legs, 

 sides and apex of the abdomen ; finely and distantly punctured ; the 

 spines of the apex of the tibiae simple ; wings fuscous, not very dark, 

 and having a mixture of coppery and greenish iridescence. Abdomen : 

 the first segment bell-shaped, much narrower than the following ; the 

 punctures on the abdomen fine and not very close, the apex smooth 

 and opake. 



Hal. Gilolo. 



2. Scolia ambigua. S. nitida nigra, abdomine opaco, alis fuscis 

 cupreo et violaceo splendide micantibus. 



Female. Length 12 lines. The head and thorax shining black ; the 

 face and vertex thickly set with black pubescence ; a patch of silvery 

 white pubescence between the base of the scape and the inner margin 

 of the eyes ; the cheeks have also a little silvery pile ; the mandibles 

 rufo-piceous on their inner margins. The sides of the thorax, beneath 

 as well as the metathorax with a thin cinereous pile ; the disk of the 

 thorax smooth and shining ; the anterior margin of the prothorax 

 with deep coarse punctures ; the legs thickly set with rigid black hairs ; 

 the posterior femora broad, compressed, and membranaceous beneath ; 

 the inner spine at the apex of the tibial spatulate ; all the calcaria) 

 rufo-testaceous ; the wings fusco-hyaline, with a splendid violet and 

 coppery iridescence. Abdomen opake black with the basal margins 

 of the segments slightly shining; the terminal segment longitudinally 

 rugose with its apical margin narrowly pale testaceous; the anterior 

 wings witli a second recurrent nervure incomplete. 



Hub. Gilolo. 



Div. 2, 'The anterior wings with two submarginal cells and two recurrent 



nervurcs. 



.'i. Scolia aureieollis, .S7. Farg. Ili/rn. iii. W.). 6 ? . 

 Hah Tunati; BflChiailj Philippines j Ceylon; Silhet. 



