IV 
APPENDIX 
SCOLIIDAE 
Genus Scolia^ Fabr. ; Subgenus DiSCOlia, (with two cubital cells in forewing). 
Scolia robinsoni, sp. nov. 
9 . Black, highly polished and shining, but without a trace of purple or green reflections 
on the head, thorax, or abdomen ; wings, dark fuscous with a brilliant purple reflection along 
the costal margin of the forewing, turning to brilliant metallic green on the inferior half of the 
fore, and on the whole of the hind wing ; the sides of the clypeus, the base of the antennae, the 
back of the head, the pronotum and mesonotum anteriorly, the sides of the thorax, the legs, and 
the abdomen, clad with stiff long black hairs, dense behind the head, on the pronotum, the legs, 
and the apical segments of the abdomen. Head narrower than the thorax, densely punctured between 
and around the bases of the antennae, remarkably smooth and unpunctured on the vertex, which 
is sharply sloped anteriorly ; clypeus large, convex, its anterior margin entire ; eyes remarkably 
small, elongate, deeply indented on the inner margins. Thorax massive, elongate, the pronotum 
anteriorly and on the sides, coarsely punctured ; the disc of the mesonotum, the scutellum, post- 
scutellum, and median segment, smooth, unpunctured ; the scutellum, postscutellum, and median 
segment with a gentle slope posteriorly, the last broad, its posterior angles rounded ; legs long, 
robust, the anterior tibial calcaria flattened, castaneous. Abdomen, long and narrow, sparsely 
punctured, the punctures on the apical two or three segments smaller and closer, the basal segment 
constricted at apex, the second segment not tuberculated above. 
Lengthy 9 » 24 mm. ; Exp.y 46 mm. 
Habitat. Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. 2,500 feet. 
Genus Pseudagrenia, Kohl. 
Pseudaij^enia marpesia, sp. nov. 
9 . Head and thorax, the tarsi of the anterior, the apex of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi 
of the intermediate and posterior legs, and the abdomen, black ; the coxae, trochanters, femora 
and tibiae of the anterior legs, the coxae, trochanters, and greater portion of the femora of the 
intermediate and posterior pair of legs, blood red ; the wings yellowish hyaline, a dark fuscous 
crescent-shaped cloud along the basal nervure, and a larger subapical cloud from the costal margin 
of the radial cell to the posterior margin of the wing ; tegulae black, nervures testaceous. Head 
transverse, slightly broader than the thorax, clypeus twice as broad as long, boldly arched 
anteriorly, face slightly concave, eyes convergent above ; thorax : the prothorax more or less 
cubical, the anterior angles rounded, the sides with a wide shallow groove, the posterior margin 
very widely arched, mesonotum flat, scutellum and postscutellum horizontal, median segment 
long, with a gradual slope posteriorly ; legs stout, short, the tibiae of the intermediate and 
posterior pair with minute spines ; abdomen fusiform, as long as the thorax. Head and thorax 
opaque, minutely and closely punctured, and covered with sparse very fine short silky pubescence, 
the sides of the postscutellum and metapleura finely, obliquely striate, the median segment some- 
what more coarsely punctured than the rest of the thorax, and in the middle minutely reticulate ; 
abdomen, smooth and shining. 
Lengthy 9 > *3 rnrn* » Exp.y 22 mm. 
Habitat. Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. 
