nnel and covered with large shallow
punctures; the eyes notched on their inner margin; wings fuscous and
iridescent; the tegulae smooth and shining. Abdomen shining and rather
finely punctured; the basal segment narrow and campanulate; the margins
of the segments thickly fringed with silvery-white hair; the cheeks,
sides of the thorax, and beneath the legs and abdomen with scattered
long silvery-white hairs.
_Hab._ Celebes.
Fam. SCOLIADAE, _Leach._
Gen. SCOLIA, _Fabr._
1. Scolia erratica, _Smith_, _Cat. Hym. Ins._ pt. iii. p. 88. 10. Scolia
verticalis, _Burm. Abh. Nat.-Ges. Halle_, i. 37. 61.
_Hab._ India, Sumatra, Celebes.
2. Scolia aurulenta, _Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins._ pt. iii. p. 102. 80. (nec
_Fabr._).
_Hab._ Philippine Islands, Celebes.
3. Scolia fimbriata, _Burm. Abh. Nat.-Ges. Halle_, i. p. 32. 24.
_Hab._ Java, Celebes.
4. Scolia dimidiata, _Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool._ ii. pt. 2. p. 248.
_Hab._ Senegal, Celebes.
5. SCOLIA TERMINATA. _S._ nigra, clypeo mandibulisque flavis, thorace
flavo variegato, alis hyalinis, abdomine flavo quinque-fasciato,
apicisque marginibus flavis.
_Male._ Length 5 lines. Black; the clypeus, labrum, and mandibles
yellow; the former with a triangular black spot in the middle; the
latter ferruginous at their apex. The posterior margin of the prothorax,
the tegulae, a transverse curved line on the scutellum, and a spot on the
postscutellum yellow; the anterior and intermediate tarsi, tibiae, and
knees, and the posterior tibiae outside, yellow; a black line on the
intermediate tibiae beneath, and the apical joints of the tarsi fuscous;
wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen brightly prismatic; the
margins of all the segments with a narrow yellow fascia, those on the
second and third segments terminating at the sides in a large rounded
macula; the fascia very narrow or obliterated on the sixth segment; the
fasciae on the second and third segments continued beneath.
_Hab._ Celebes.
6. SCOLIA AGILIS. _S._ nigra, mandibulis clypeoque flavis, alis
fulvo-hyalinis, abdomine prismatico flavo quadrifasciato.
_Male._ Length 8 lines. Black and punctured, with thin long griseous
pubescence; the vertex, disk of the thorax, and the abdomen shining; the
mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter with a black bell-shaped spot
in the middle; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiae
with a yellow line outside. Abdomen beautifully prismatic; the first and
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