three following segments with a yellow fascia on their apical margins,
the second and two following much attenuated in the middle, or the
fourth interrupted.

_Hab._ Celebes.

7. SCOLIA FULVIPENNIS. _S._ nigra, antennis capiteque supra basin
antennarum rubris, alis fulvo-hyalinis.

_Male._ Length 7 lines. Black; the antennae and the head above their
insertion ferruginous, the scape black, the head coarsely punctured.
Thorax: coarsely punctured; the mesothorax with an abbreviated deeply
impressed line in the middle of its anterior margin; wings
fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the apex of the wings slightly
fuscous, the anterior pair with two submarginal cells and one recurrent
nervure. Abdomen: shining, punctured, and prismatic.

_Hab._ Celebes.

8. SCOLIA ALECTO. _S._ nigra, capite supra basin antennarum rubro; alis
nigris violaceo micantibus.

_Female._ Length 14 lines. Black and shining; head red above the
insertion of the antennae, very smooth and glossy, with a few punctures
at the sides of and in front of the ocelli; antennae black; the mandibles
with a fringe of ferruginous hairs on their inferior margin. Thorax:
smooth on the disk, which has a few scattered punctures at the sides;
the scutellum punctured and shining; the thorax in front and the
metathorax with black pubescence, the latter widely emarginate at the
verge of the truncation, the lateral angles produced; wings black with a
bright violet iridescence. Abdomen punctured, with the middle of the
second, third, and fourth segments smooth and shining in the middle; the
first segment with a smooth shining carina at its base slightly produced
forwards, the abdomen with a slight metallic lustre. The wings with one
marginal and three submarginal cells, and one recurrent nervure.

_Male._ Smaller than the female, and differs in having the clypeus red
and the red colour running down behind the eyes, the antennae longer, and
the abdomen with a bright metallic iridescence.

_Hab._ Celebes.

9. SCOLIA MINUTA. _S._ nigra, abdomine iridescente, segmentorum
marginibus apicalibus flavo fasciatis, alis subhyalinis iridescentibus.

_Male._ Length 4 lines. Head and thorax black and shining, with
scattered pale pubescence; the mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter
with an anchor-shaped black spot. Thorax: the posterior margin of the
prothorax and the anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi yellow; a
minute yellow spot on the postscutellum yellow;