60 SCOLIID^. 



verge of the truncated apex, autl two abbreviated carinse in the 

 intermediate spaces. Black, with a thin short hoary pubescence 

 on the clypeus, legs, and posterior portion of the abdomen ; man- 

 dibles broadly reddish in the middle ; antennae slightly fulvous 

 beneath ; wings hyaline ; the fore wing with a flavo-fuscous tint ; 

 nervures and tegulte along the outer margins testaceous. 



6 {T. dypealis, Cam. MS.). Similar, but smaller, more pubes- 

 cent; the apical margin of the clypeus curved, rufescent ; the apex 

 of the antennae also rufescent ; the fore tibiae and tarsi testaceous ; 

 the median segment with the five longitudinal cariuie as in the 5 ; 

 the basal segment of the abdomen with a subapical row of punctures, 

 and the remaining segments more closely punctured. 



Hah. Mussooree ; Tenasserim ; Borneo. $. Lenfjih 10-11; 

 exp. 16 mm. J . Length 7; CA'p. 12 mm. 



132. Tiphia lyrata, Mngr. A?in. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2») xli, 1892, p. 252, $ . 



$ . Head and the basal half of the pronotum coarsely but 

 somewhat sparsely, and the middle of the mesonotum in front of 

 the scutellum rather more closely punctured ; sides smooth and 

 shining ; scutellum smooth, its posterior margin with a few 

 punctures ; postscutellum smooth and shining ; median segment 

 opaque, furnished with five carinas above, forming a mai'k shaped 

 something like the Greek lyra ; the median carina straight, un- 

 broken, the two lateral arched and converging, truncated a little 

 past the middle of the area, the two external also arched and 

 converging and produced to the apex of the segment, the included 

 space, as well as the surface of the segment outside, opaque and 

 lightly rugulose; the basal segment of the abdomen smooth, 

 beautifully polished, its extreme apical margin emarginate, and 

 shortly but obsoletely longitudinally striate ; the remaining seg- 

 ments less shining, minutely punctured, chiefly in the middle of 

 the apical margin. Black and shining, with silvery pubescence ; 

 the mandibles and the anal segment of the abdomen above rufo- 

 ferruginous ; the apices of the femora and the tegulae of the wings 

 f usco-ferreginous ; the posterior margin of the pronotum flavo- 

 testaceous ; wings flavo-hyaline ; nervures testaceous. 



Hah. Karen Hills, Burma. 5 . Length 7-8 ; exp. 12 mm, 



133. Tiphia incisa. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pubescent, finely and closely 

 punctured ; clypeus anteriorly fringed with long hairs, incised in 

 the middle ; median segment finely rugulose, obliquely truncate at 

 apex, with the usual three central longitudinal cariuae ; abdomen 

 with the posterior margins of the segments fimbriated, and the 

 apical three or four segments studded with short fine hairs. 

 Black, the pubescence cinereous ; wings hyaline ; nervures and 

 stigma dark testaceous brown ; tegulae black. 



Hah. Mussooree. 6 . Length 10 ; exp. 18 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothney. 



