62 scoliibjE. 



postscutellum closely punctured ; median segment smooth and 

 somewhat shining, subconvex above, the sides obliquely and the 

 extreme apex vertically truncate ; three central longitudinal 

 carinie running from base to the verge of the truncation, the 

 space between them and on either side very smooth and highly 

 polished ; abdomen sparsely punctured all over, the punctures tine 

 and more dense towards the apex. Black ; the mandibles, antennae, 

 and the femora, tibiae, and tarsi of all the legs testaceous red ; the 

 head, tborax, and abdomen with a thin and scanty whitish 

 pubescence ; wings hyaline, very slightly fuscescent on the apical 

 half, nervures and tegulse testaceous. 



Hah. Northern India ; Burma. $. Length 7 ; exp. 13 mm. 



138. Tiphia vicina, Magr. Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2^) xii, 1892, p. 251, $ . 



5 . Head and thorax sparsely punctured, the disc of the 

 mesonotura cribrate ; median segment above smooth, shining, 

 furnished with three posteriorly convergent, impressed, median 

 longitudinal lines ; the metapleurge posteriorly rugosely opaque, 

 closely striate ; abdomen — the basal segment shining, its posterior 

 margin with a subapical row, broadening at the sides, of coarse 

 punctures, the 2nd smooth, the semaining segments moderately 

 rugosely punctured ; clypeus, scape of the antennae beneath, and 

 the apical margins of the abdominal segments pilose, the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae covered with rigid hairs over silky 

 pile. Black, shioing, the palpi and the intermediate and posterior 

 femora pale rufo-ferruginous ; the mandibles, flagellum of the 

 antennae beneath, tegulse, anterior legs, intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi, and the anal segment of the abdomen above 

 obscurely ferruginous red ; a yellowish-white narrow transverse 

 band subapically on the basal abdominal segment above, and at the 

 base of the 2nd and 3rd segments above and below ; pubescence 

 white, the silky pile on the intermediate and posterior tibiae silvery ; 

 wings hyaline, nervures subfuscous. 



Bah. Bhamo, Upper Burma. $ . Length 9 mm. 



139. Tiphia policarinata, Magr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2*) xii, 1892, 



p. 250, $ . 

 5 . Head, pronotum, scutellum, postscutellum, and abdomen 

 above sparsely and lightly punctured ; the posterior margin of 

 the pronotum' broadly smooth ; mesonotum cribrate, a few shining 

 distinct patches on the sides ; median segment smooth, subopaque, 

 furnished with five (sometimes, owing to the lateral grooves, 

 becoming many) parallel carinae. Black, shhiing ; the mandibles, 

 antenuc^ (the scape often excepted), the tegulae, legs (except the 

 coxfe), and the apical abdominal segment above broadly ferru- 

 ginous red ; wings yellowish, nervures testaceous. 

 Hah. Karen Hills, Burma. $ . Length 5|-7 mm. 



