no. 3644 TIPHIIDAE — KROMBEIN 11 



a median keel that is not raised into a process; in shuckardi the keel 

 is produced into a process that is nasiform as viewed in profile. Also, 

 shuckardi has the lateroventral part of the head angulate beneath, 

 whereas this area is rounded in the other species. 



Turner stated that his unique type in the British Museum was 

 from "India (probably the South or West), ex coll. Shuckard." The 

 locality label, however, a round disk, bears only "Ind." on one side 

 and "63/81" on the other. J. F. Perkins of the British Museum staff 

 advised me that the registry entry for 63/81 is "18 Myzine — Africa, 

 India and Brazil. Purchased of E. W. Janson. From the collection of 

 E. W. Shuckard." The more explicit label data on the other specimens 

 of shuckardi before me suggest that "Ind." actually may stand for 

 Indies rather than India. 



Female. — Length 14-20, forewing 10-13 mm. Black, the head red 

 except tip of mandible, hypostomal area, and antenna, the abdomen 

 with bluish reflections; forewing moderately infumated except basal 

 third very lightly so, the darkened portion with violaceous reflections. 



Head from above with length (apex of antennal insertions to occiput) 

 about four-fifths (0.78-0.82) the width across eyes; clypeal keel pro- 

 duced into a nasiform process as viewed laterally; median lobe of 

 clypeus broadly rounded, with a pair of separated median teeth, weak 

 except in the specimen from Marang; front with a median sulcus 

 extending from antennal insertions halfway to anterior ocellus, and 

 with moderately large punctures confluent in vertical rows from 

 insertions two- thirds of distance to anterior ocellus; remainder of 

 front with smaller, scattered, shallow punctures; vertex with more 

 scattered punctures except behind eye, where they are denser; ocel- 

 locular distance 2.33-2.70 times the postocellar distance and 0.52-0.61 

 times the ocelloccipital distance; anterior ocellus closer to apices of 

 antennal tubercles than to occiput; head beneath angulate postero- 

 laterally; distance between occipital and hypostomal carinae about 

 half the length of hypostomal area. 



Anterior margin of pronotal disk with a strong ridge, behind which 

 are coarse punctures more or less confluent in longitudinal rows on 

 anterior half, the posterior half with more scattered and smaller 

 punctures; side of pronotum with coarse, more or less confluent punc- 

 tures; scutum with moderately large, subconfluent punctures except 

 posteriorly in middle, where they are confluent; scutellum with punc- 

 tures of same size, confluent in a row laterally and in several rows 

 medianly; mesopleural disk produced anteriorly in middle beyond 

 concave anterior part of sclerite, the discal punctures coarse and 

 mostly separated by less than the diameter of a puncture; upper 

 surface of propodeum with small confluent punctures adjacent to 

 median cuneate impression, larger pits posteriorly, and scattered 



