238 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



curved, somewhat triangular, spine ; the apical part of the segment is 

 strongly shagreened ; on the sides are two or three large irregular 

 fovere ; the apex is furrowed and stoutly longitudinally striated. The 

 pygidium is coarsely punctured; the epipygium is coarsely punctured, 

 with a smooth shining band in the middle ; the ventral segments are 

 fringed with bright golden hair. 



A species easily known by the tooth on the base of the petiole, 

 by the stoutly transversely striated middle of metanotum, and 

 by the stoutly striated base of the second abdominal segment. 



TiPHIA CURVINERVIS, Sp. nOV. 



Long. 14 mm. 5 . 



Hah. Khasia Hills (coll. Eothney). 



Agrees closely in form and coloration with T.fidvincrins, but 

 is smaller ; may readily be separated from it by the second 

 transverse cubital nervure being roundly curved at the top, the 

 whole nervure being of the shape of a reaping-hook. 



Scape of antenna thickly covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the 

 flagellum with a pale pile, its last joints rufous. Front and vertex 

 strongly and deeply but not very closely punctured, and sparsely 

 covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the keel over the antennaj is 

 large, but not stout, and is bluntly conical. Face and clypeus closely 

 and somewhat strongly punctured ; the apex and the middle of the 

 clypeus smooth. Mandibles rufous in the middle, fringed below with 

 long pale golden hair. The basal slope of the pronotum is closely and 

 distinctly punctured ; the basal half of the upper part bears large deep 

 punctures ; the apical is smootli ; the whole is thickly covered with 

 long white hair. Mesonotum bearing large deep scattered punctures, 

 the sides impunctate in the middle. iScutellum with some large deep 

 punctures on the apex; the post-scutellum similarly punctured at the 

 base Median segment coarsely shagreened, more strongly between 

 the keels ; of these there are three ; the outer are curved outwardly at 

 the base ; the inner reaches near to the apex ; the oblique slope is 

 strongly shagreened, is thickly covered with a short white pile, and is 

 irregularly punctured and striated round the edges. PropleurtB longi- 

 tudinally striated ; above the strife are thinner, more irregular, and 

 are intermixed with punctures. Mesopleurae rugosely punctured, 

 thickly covered with white pubescence. Metapleurte closely striated, 

 except at the base, which is broadly shagreened. Basal half of the 

 mesonotum strongly punctured ; the apical smooth ; the apical area 

 narrowed at the base, the narrowed part deeply furrowed ; there is a 

 triangular depression in the middle at the base ; the sides have a few 

 punctures. Legs thickly covered with glistening silvery hairs ; the 

 spines are rufous. Wings fulvo-hyaliiie, the hinder pair paler at the 

 apex and behind ; the nervures and stigma are fulvous. The base of the 

 radius is straight, and has an oblique slope ; the upper half of the 

 second transverse cubital nervure has a round outward curve ; the 

 lower half is almost straight, oblique ; the first transverse cubital 

 nervure has a rounded outward curve at the top ; the second has an 

 oblique slope, and is received near the base of the apical third. 



