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134. Tiphia implicata, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



d" . Head, pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, and postscutellum 

 closely and finely punctured ; median segment somewhat coarsely 

 reticulate, obliquely truncate at apex, the space between the usual 

 three median longitudinal carinae transversely striate ; abdomen 

 with the middle of the segments above finely punctured ; the head, 

 thoi-ax in front, the median segment laterally, and the abdomen 

 covered with a thin short pubescence; the clypeus anteriorly 

 broadly produced in the middle, the sides widely eraarginate. 

 Black, the pubescence cinereous ; wings hyaline, fuscescent towards 

 the apex ; nervures and stigma dark testaceous brown ; tegulse 

 black. 



Bah. Mussooree. 6. Lenrjth 9; e.vp. 17 mm. Type in coll. 

 Rothney. 



135. Tiphia COnsueta, Smith, Netv Sp. Hi/m. B. M. p. 184, $ ; Cam. 



Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 116. 

 Methoca uigra *, Bm(/h. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 427, $ . 



2 . Head, pronotum in front, and the 2nd and following seg- 

 ments of the abdomen with a thin scanty pubescence ; head, 

 pronotum in front, mesonotum, scutellum, and postscutellum 

 closely punctured ; median segment smooth and shining, the 

 sides obliquely and the apex vertically truncate, three central, 

 longitudinal, parallel carinae running from the base to the verge of 

 the truncation, the space between them very minutely punctured ; 

 abdomen shining, the basal segment and great part of the basal 

 portion of the 2nd segment impunctate, the apical margin of the 

 latter and succeeding segments with transverse bands of rather 

 sparse and fine punctures ; the basal segment at apex not much 

 constrii'ted. Black ; the wings hyaUne, fuscescent on the apical 

 half of both fore and hind wing. 



Hab. Ceylon. $. Length 9; exp. 16 mm. 



136. Tiphia intrudens, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1863, p. 25, § S- 



$ . Resembles T. compressa. Smith ; differs in being smaller and 

 more slender ; in having the posterior margins of the pronotum 

 and of the segments of the abdomen narro\\ly testaceous ; the 

 apex of the abdomen, nervures and tegulse of the wings testaceous 

 instead of black ; and in the thorax and abdomen being much more 

 sparingly punctured. 



Hah. Bengal ; Mysol. This species will probably also be found 

 in Burma, Tenasserim, and the whole Indo-Malayau subregion. 

 $ . Length 11 ; exp. 20 mm. 6 slightly smaller. 



137. Tiphia rufipes. Smith, Cat. iii, p. 83,$ ; Cam. Me?n. Manch. L. 



Ph. Sue. (4) v, 1892, p. 115. 



$ . Head, pronotum in front, mesonotum, scutellum, and 

 * By mistake identified as a Methoca. 



