Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 123 1967 Number 3617 



BREDIN-ARCHBOLD-SMITHSONIAN 

 BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DOMINICA 



4. Two New Species of Tiphia from the West Indies 

 (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae) l 



By Harry W. Allen 



The two wasps described below were collected recently on Dominica 

 by Dr. H. E. Evans of the Harvard University Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology and by Dr. W. W. Wirth of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture as participants of the survey of that island by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Tiphia dominicae, new species 



Figure 1 



This species differs from species of the North American mainland 

 in having the second sternum perceptibly keeled. From other West 



1 Other faunal studies in this series are: 1, Kier, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1966, 

 vol. 121, no. 3577, pp. 1-9; 2, Stone, ibid., 1966, vol. 121, no. 3578, pp. 1-6; 3, 

 Kirstener, ibid., 1967, vol. 123, no. 3610, pp. 1-6. A companion series on the 

 flora appears in the "Contributions of the United States National Herbarium." 



2 Research Fellow in Entomology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 and Collaborator, U.S. Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 150, Moorestown, 

 N.J. 08057. This is the seventh paper by the author prepared under Grant 

 GB-1240 of the National Science Foundation on a taxonomic study of the 

 Tiphiinae of the New World. 



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