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hypopygidium rounded apically; otherwise structure as in female. 

 Black, with bluish reflection in bright sunlight; scape piceous; a 

 small spot on temples above and ventral margin of pronotum yel- 

 lowish; legs below trochanters ruf o-f erruginous ; wings uniformly 

 hyaline, iridescent; venation dark brown. 



Paratypes show the following variation: Length, 10-12.5 mm.; 

 propodeum with a dorsal yellow spot on anterior margin. 



Type locality. — Sunderbans, Bengal, British India. 



Described from seven females (one type) and six males (one allo- 

 type) reared from "Sundri" (Heritiera fomes Buch ( = minor)) by 

 C. F. C. Beeson. 



Type, allotype, and paratypes. — Cat. No. 22588 U.S.N.M. Para- 

 type females and males returned to office of forest zoologist, Dehra 

 Dun, India. 



XIPHYDRIA HEKITIERAE, subspecies BORNEENSIS, new subspecies. 



Female. — Length, 15 mm. Differs from the typical form in hav- 

 ing the upper margin of mesepisternum smooth and polished, in ner- 

 vulus being interstitial with basal and in the second and ninth ter- 

 gites being entirely black. 



Type locality. — Sandakan, Borneo. 



Described from one female collected by C. F. Baker. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22589 U.S.N.M. 



XIPHYDRIA FLAVICORNIS, new species. 



This species is, judging from the descriptions, closely allied to 

 testacea Moscary, but there are slight difference in color, and the 

 male is larger. 



Female. — Length, 12 mm. Clypeus projecting over the bases of 

 mandibles, laterally with oblique striae, medianly with a sharp tri- 

 angularly shaped tooth; face with irregular dorsad-ventrad raised 

 lines, frons rather coarsely reticulate, area between postocellar line 

 and supraorbital line with irregular striae which become weaker dor- 

 sally; vertex and temples polished, without sculpture; lower cheeks 

 with oblique striae; the occipital carina ending about opposite the 

 middle of eye; ocelli in a low triangle well below the supraorbital 

 line; postocellar line subequal with the ocellocular line; antenna 

 15-jointed not extending beyond tegula, slender and tapering from 

 the second joint; second antennal joint two-thirds as long as the 

 third and somewhat longer than the fourth, which is subequal with 

 the fifth; prescutum truncate posteriorly, the anterior width sub- 

 equal with the median length; notauli broad, shallow, foveolate; 

 prescutum, scutum, and scutellum (anteriorly) reticulate; posterior 

 part of scutellum opaque, granular, and with some irregular raised 

 lines; anterior face of pronotum with dorsad-ventrad rugae; mesep- 

 isternum with irregular depressed areas which dorsally look like 

 large, shallow punctures; mesosternum shining almost without 



