5410 Paratiphia albilabris Lep. cf. Cameron, Tnvort. rncificaj, 10.'). 



As it is ])o«silile llial lli(> following described species t'nmi <';ilif()riii;i 

 may he LepclletitT 's s]>cei(>s, I propose to describe it under the iiaiiie of 

 albilahris, so that the unme may be defiuiitely luseil fo-' some species. 

 Only an examination of the type (if it stitl be in existence) can show 

 wliat nlhihibrift really is. 



Black, closely punctured and covered densely with white pubescence 

 like the other species; the clypens, labrum and mandibles to near the 

 middle, are white; the tips of mandibles are red, broadly black behind; 

 wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black; basal abscissa of the 

 radius fully onehalf the length of the second, the apex broadly 

 uniformly rounded; the upper part of the fourth transverse cubital 

 nervure is oblique^ straight above, slightly rounded below, the lower 

 shorter part straight. The two central areae of metanotiim slightly 

 longer than wide, of equal width throughout, tranverse at the apex, 

 the outer areae are longer and narrower; on the outer edge are two 

 curved keels; the second row of areae are shorter and wider; the apical 

 slope is aeiculated, weakly irregularly striated above, more strongly 

 closely and regularly beJow. Up]ier half of propleurae aflutacieous, 

 punctured on top, the lower strongly but not very closely striated. 

 Base of metapleurae smooth, the rest strongly striolated, the striae 

 longer (nearer the base) above than below. Pygidium strongly deeply 

 punctured, a smooth line widened in the middle, down the center. 

 Cnlearia and the spines on hind tarsi white; on the anterior tarsi the 

 spines are rufous. 



Comes close to P. occidentalis from which it mny be known by the 

 much more regular clearly defined areae on the base of metanotum; 

 in the present species there are four distinct longitudinal keels outside 

 the two central areae; in oceidn^falis there is one central and an 

 indistinct outer keel; in the latter, too, the metanotum is striated at 

 the base below, the whole being almost regularly striated. 



The nervures of alhilnbris are called "red", a colour T have not seen 

 in any species of Tiphia or Paratiphia. Tn some species the neryures 

 vary from black to fuscous or pale fuscons. 



5423 Paratiphia occidentalis sp. nov. 



Black; the clypeus except around the top creamy white; the basal 

 half of mandibles yellow, tinged with rufous; palpi black; wings clear 

 hvaline, the stigma and nervures black, the apex of the radius rounded 

 above, ytrai<rht and oblique below, there being a .sharply pointed angle 

 at the Junction of the two. The two basal areae on metanotum confluent 

 at th.- base, the dividing nervur- being present only at the apex, the 

 two form an area slightly longer than wide, slightly narrowed at the 

 base; next to them is a larger square area, the outer part with some 



