82 HYMENOPTERA. 



Tiphia femorata. Van d. Lind. Ohs. Hym. d'Eur. p. 279. 1 . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. p. 39. 1 <? $ . 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 573. 1. t. 36. f . 2 ? . 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 19. 1. 



Wesm. Hym. Foiiis. Belg. p. 23. 1 (? $ . 

 Bethylus femoratus, Panz. Faun. Germ. ; Krit. Revis. ii. 134 $ . 

 Tiphia villosa, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 235. 22 S • 



Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 267. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. p. 280. 2. 

 Bethylus villosus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 98. 16. 



Hab. Britain; Italy; France; Germany. 



2. Tiphia morio. B.M. 



Tiphia morio, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 235. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 1. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. p. 280. 3. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. p. 41. 2. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 557. 7? 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 23. 2. 

 Bethylus morio, Panz. Krit. Revis. p. 134. 



Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland. 



3. Tiphia minuta. B.M. 



Tiphia minuta, Van d. Lind. Obs. p. 282. 4. 

 Shuck. Foss. Hym. p. 42. 3. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 558. 9. 

 Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 24. 3. 

 Wesm. Hym. Fouis. Belg. p. 23. 2. 



Hab. Italy; Brussels; Britain. 



4. Tiphia compressa. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black and shining, head com- 

 pressed, the face strongly punctured, the vertex, which is narrow, 

 sparingly so ; the mandibles and scape at the apex beneath, fer- 

 ruginous ; the flagellum rufo-fuscous beneath ; the mesothorax 

 and prothorax in front strongly punctured, the posterior margin 

 of the latter smooth and shining ; the superior wings fusco-hya- 

 line, the posterior pair clear ; the metathorax smooth, subopake, 

 the superior surface having three longitudinal elevated lines, 

 which extend to the transverse one on the verge of the trunca- 

 tion, the latter smooth and shining ; the legs have a glittering 

 silvery pubescence ; the calcaria, claws and spines which ai"m the 

 apex of the joints of the tarsi, ferruginous ; the femora behind 



