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Syst. Nat. 961. 53.
Hab. India, Java, Singapore, Celebes.
3. Xylocopa Dejeanii, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 209. 59.
Hab. Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes.
4. Xylocopa collaris, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 189. 26.
Hab. India, Sumatra, Malacca, Borneo, Celebes.
5. XYLOCOPA NOBILIS. X. nigra, pube nigra induta; abdominis basi
pube flava, apice lateritio.
Female. Length 11 lines. Black; a narrow line of pale fulvous
pubescence on the margin of the thorax in front, a patch of the same
colour on each side of the metathorax, and the basal segment of the
abdomen covered above with similar pubescence; the apical margin of
the third and fourth segments, and the fifth and six entirely, covered
with bright brick-red pubescence; the wings black, with coppery
iridescence.
Hab. Celebes.
Fam. SOCIALES.

1. APIS ZONATA. A. nigra, thoracis lateribus dense ochraceo
pubescentibus; alis fumatis; abdomine nitido, segmentis secundo tertio
quartoque basi niveo pubescentibus.
Worker. Length 8--8-1/2 lines. Black; the head and thorax opake, the
abdomen shining; the clypeus smooth and shining, the flagellum
rufo-piceous beneath; the anterior margin of the labrum narrowly, and
the apex of the mandibles, ferruginous; the face with a little fine short
cinereous pubescence above the insertion of the antennæ; the vertex
with long black pubescence; the eyes covered with short black
pubescence. Thorax: the sides with ochraceous pubescence; wings
smoky, the superior pair darkest at their anterior margin beyond the
stigma. Abdomen: a snow-white band at the basal margin of the second,
third, and fourth segments, the bands continued beneath, but narrower.
Hab. Celebes, Philippine Islands.
Specimens of this species denuded of their white bands would approach
the A. unicolor of Latreille; but that insect is described as having the
anterior wings black; in the present species both pairs are of the same
smoky colour, not approaching black.
Fam. MUTILLIDÆ.
Gen. MUTILLA.
1. Mutilla sexmaculata, Swed. Nov. Act. Holm. viii. 286. 44. [Symbol:
female]. Mutilla fuscipennis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 436. 35. [Symbol: male].
Hab. India (Punjaub, &c.), China, Java, Celebes.
2. Mutilla unifasciata, Smith, Cat. Hym. pt. iii. p. 38.
Hab. India, Celebes.
3. Mutilla rufogastra, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 629. 51. [Symbol: male].
Hab. India, Celebes.

4. MUTILLA VOLATILIS. M. nigra, rude punctata et pubescens;
capite abdomineque nitidis, alis fusco-hyalinis.
Male. Length 5-6 lines. Black. Head and thorax very coarsely
punctured; head and disk of the thorax punctured; the metathorax opake,
with a central abbreviated channel and covered with large shallow
punctures; the eyes notched on their inner margin; wings fuscous and
iridescent; the tegulæ 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. SCOLIADÆ, 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, Guér. 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
tegulæ, a transverse curved line on the scutellum, and a spot on the
postscutellum yellow; the anterior and intermediate tarsi, tibiæ, and
knees, and the posterior tibiæ outside, yellow; a black line on the
intermediate tibiæ 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 fasciæ 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
tibiæ with a yellow line outside. Abdomen beautifully prismatic; the
first and 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