304 Mr. Rowland E. Turner’s Notes on the Seoliidae 
of this group undescribed until larger collections of both 
sexes are available and local variations better understood. 
riesia {Mesa) saussurei, sp. nov. 
$. Clypeus very short, punctured, the apex depressed and smooth. 
Head coarsely punctured, more closely on the front than on the 
vertex ; the scape shining and finely punctured ; flagellum opaque, 
the three basal joints shining, the first joint short, almost concealed 
in the apex of the scape, the third longer and thicker than the 
second. Pronotum rather shorter than the mesonotum and scutellum 
combined, the sides almost parallel, coarsely punctured-reticulate ; 
mesonotum and scutellum coarsely but more sparsely punctured, 
propleurae indistinctly striated, mesopleurae coarsely punctured, 
metapleurae striated. Median segment as long as the pronotum, 
deeply but irregularly punctured, nearly twice as broad as long, 
distinctly margined, with two low, median, longitudinal carinae, 
the posterior truncation steep, the surface finely rugulose. Abdo¬ 
men stout, about equal in length to the head, thorax and median 
segment combined, rather closely punctured ; petiolate, the petiole 
linear, equal in length to rather more than half of the dorsal surface 
of the first segment, which is nearly as long as the second; sixth 
dorsal segment longitudinally striated, broadly rounded at the apex. 
Tarsal ungues bifid. Second abscissa of the radius scarcely half as 
long as the third, and less than two-thirds of the length of the first, 
second recurrent nervure received beyond the middle of the third 
cubital cell, the third transverse cubital nervure oblique, the radial 
cell rounded at the apex, scarcely separated from the costa. 
Black ; the mandibles, clypeus, scape, three basal joints of the 
flagellum, tarsi and tlie ajDex of the pygidium fusco-ferruginous. 
Wings fuscous. Length 10 mm. 
Hah. Madagascar, Antananarivo. Two specimens. 
Type in the Zoological Museum at Berlin. 
Sub-family TIPHIINAE. 
Tijihia conradti, sp. nov. 
$. Clypeus short, almost transverse at the apex. Front round the 
base of the antennae tranversely depressed, slightly concave and very 
finely rugulose; the remainder of the head shining and sparsely 
punctured, smooth round the ocelli. Posterior ocelli very near to¬ 
gether, nearly three times as far from the eyes as from each other. 
Scape closely punctured, with sparse greyish pubescence, the apex 
