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ON SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF HYMENO- 

 PTERA (ICHNEUMONID^, CHRYSIDID^, FOSSORES, 

 AND APID^). 



By p. Cameron. 



(Continued from p. 208.) 



SCOLIID^. 

 TiPHiA SPINOSA, sp n. 

 Nigra, alis flavo-hyalinis, nervis fuscis, stigmate nigro ; metanoto 

 striolato ; petiolo subtus spinoso ; mandibulis palpisque nigris. <? . 

 Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Khasia Hills (coll. Rothney). 



Antenn£e short, stout ; the scape closely and distinctly punctured, 

 sparsely covered with fuscous hair ; the flagellum covered with a pale 

 microscopic down. Front closely, strongly, and uniformly punctured ; 

 the vertex has the punctures more irregularly distributed, larger and 

 more widely separated ; both are thickly covered with white hair. 

 Clypeus closely punctured, and thickly covered with white hair ; in 

 the middle is a slight incision, Mandibles black, shining ; the base 

 closely punctured, thickly covered with silvery hair ; the palpi dark 

 testaceous. Pronotum closely and strongly punctured, its apex 

 smooth ; behind the basal keel obscurely longitudinally striated. 

 Mesonotum with large deep moderately widely separated punctures ; the 

 scutellums are similarly punctured. On the median segment are 

 three keels ; the central is straight, the outer more irregular ; the 

 space between them is strongly shagreened, and irregularly trans- 

 versely striated ; the space outside them is irregularly reticulated and 

 striated ; on the apex are three short stout keels, the inner of which 

 does not reach to the transverse apical keel ; the outer converge at the 

 base. The apex is coarsely shagreened, irregularly reticulated, and 

 round the edges striated ; the keel bounding the top is stouter than 

 usual ; on the sides near the middle, extending half on to the notum 

 and half on to the pleurse, is a large deep ovate depression with raised 

 sides ; inside it is shagreened. Propleune closely striated ; the top 

 punctured, the apex smooth ; mesopleurae strongly but not closely 

 punctured ; metapleurse strongly striated ; the base largely and deeply 

 excavated on the upper part, the lower part strongly shagreened. 

 Mesosternum rather strongly but not closely punctured, thickly covered 

 with a pale pubescence, and with long fuscous hair ; the middle has a 

 broad rounded furrow. Legs thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; 

 the spines rufous. The radius has an oblique slope at the base ; the 

 second transverse cubital nervure has a rounded outwardly curved 

 slope ; the first recurrent nervure is rounded outwardly at the top, and 

 is received almost in the middle of tbe nervure. The petiole is strongly 

 but not closely punctured at the apex ; the base of the second segment 

 has a narrow strongly and closely striated depression ; the other seg- 

 ments are punctured, the punctures becoming stronger and closer 

 towards the apex ; the apical segments are thickly covered with pale 

 pubescence. The base of the first ventral segment bears a stout 



