84 HYMENOPTERA. 



8. TiPHIA RUFICORNIS. 



Tiphia ruficornis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 555. 4 $ . 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 286. 



Hab. Algeria; Genoa. 



9. Tiphia brevipennis. B.M. 



Tiphia brevipennis, Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 299. 285. 1. 15. 

 f. 9. 



Hab. Algeria. 



10. Tiphia Capensts. 



Tiphia Capensis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 554. 1 $ . 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



11. Tiphia chalybea. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Head and prothorax blue-green ; 

 the mesothorax, legs and abdomen of a steel-blue; the head and 

 thorax with large scattered punctures ; the metathorax subru- 

 gose, the superior surface having three longitudinal elevated 

 lines, the central one abbreviated, not extending to the transverse 

 one upon the verge of the truncation ; wings dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen having large scattered punctures, those at the base of 

 the segments finer and closer. 



Hab. Brazil. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



12. Tiphia nitida. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black, smooth and shining, the 

 head covered with large deep punctures ; the flagellum beneath 

 towards the base and the mandibles ferruginous ; the prothorax 

 has a few scattered punctures, the posterior margin of the scu- 

 tellum also slightly punctm-ed, the metathorax impunctate, the 

 superior surface having three longitudinal carinae, the middle one 

 abbreviated, not extending to the carina on the verge of the 

 truncation which is continued along the lateral margins ; wings 

 slightly fuscous ; the calcaria and spines which arm the joints of 

 the tarsi, ferruginous. Abdomen : the first and second segments 

 having a few scattered delicate punctures, the two following seg- 

 ments punctured at their basal and a])ical margins, the two api- 

 cal ones more strongly punctured ; beneath, strongly punctured, 

 particularly the second segment, which is covered with large deep 

 shallow punctures. 



Hab. Jamaica. 



