OF CEEAM, CELEBES, TEENATE, AND GILOLO. 



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4. Scolia annulate (Tiphia Fabr.), Syst. Piez. p. 234. 11. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



The specimens from Celebes have the wings entirely dark fuscous. 



5. Scolia morosa. S. nitida, aterrima; abdomine subopaco; alis 

 nigro-fuscis, violaceo splendide micantibus. 



Female. Length 14^ lines. Jet black, the head and thorax shining, 

 the abdomen subopake, The face coarsely rugose and covered with 

 dense black pubescence ; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath. The 

 thorax with deep coarse punctures and having a smooth impunctate 

 space in the middle of the disk and of the scutellum ; the legs thickly 

 set with rigid spines and hairs : the anterior tibiae strongly punctured ; 

 the apical joint of the anterior and intermediate tarsi rufo-piceous ; 

 the wings very dark brown with a splendid violet iridescence. Abdo- 

 men strongly punctured towards the apex. 



Hab. Celebes (Tondano). 



Div. 3. The anterior wings with three submarginal cells and one 



recurrent nervure. 



6. Scolia apicata. <S. capite thoraceque nigris, abdomine nigro- 

 cseruleo, apice ferrugineo ; alis nigro-fuscis violaceo iridescentibus. 



Female. Length 7a lines. Head and thorax black and shining ; head 

 as wide as the thorax, finely and distantly punctured on the vertex, 

 but much more strongly so before the ocelli. Thorax strongly punc- 

 tured ; the wings dark brown with a violet iridescence. Abdomen 

 blue-black, rather finely and distantly punctured, the three apical 

 segments bright ferruginous and thickly ciliated with ferruginous 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Celebes (Tondano). 



I at first mistook this insect for S. dimidiata ; but, independent of the 

 different neuration of the wings, its broad head, as wide as the thorax, at 

 once distinguishes it ; in S. dimidiata the head is much narrower than the 

 thorax. 



7. Scolia intrudens. S. nigra, subnitida, punctatissima; alis fuscis, 

 viride et violaceo micantibus. 



Male. Length 14^ lines. Black, slightly shining and densely punctured ; 

 the pubescence black. The thorax with confluent punctures; the 

 wings dark fuscous, with a mixture of green violet and coppery irides- 

 cence, changing in different lights. The abdomen with the segments 

 densely fringed with black pubescence ; the terminal segment with an 

 acute spine at the apex and a shorter one on each side at the base. 



Hab. Celebes (Tondano). 



Div. 4. The anterior wings with three submarginal cells and two 



recurrent nervures. 



8. Scolia dimidiata, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pi. 2. p. 247. 



Hab, Gilolo ; Celebes ; Isle of Bourou ; Bachian ; Amboyna j Senegal. 



