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central groove on same segment deeper ; the fore and mid tarsi normal in 
structure and not conspicuously hairy. 
Length, 9 mm. 
Type locality, Chimney Gulch, Col. (coll. N. Banks). 
Female unknown. 
TIPHIA TRANSVERSA Say 
This species differs from all others known to me in having the 
tegulae much longer than broad in both sexes. In cephalic and thoracic 
punctuation the male very closely resembles that of clypeata, but the 
clypeus is slightly buccate centrally, its surface covered with large and 
microscopic punctures almost up to the anterior margin, the central por- 
tion narrower than one-third the clypeal width, tapered anteriorly and 
with a rather deep central emargination. The veins closing marginal and 
submarginal cells are nearly at right angles to the costa, whereas in 
clypeata, inornata, and most other species of this group, these veins are 
sloped diagonally towards the apex of wing posteriorly. 
The female differs from imornata, in addition to the tegular distinc- 
_ tion, in having the lateral areas of the metathorax distinctly punctate 
and the posterior face of metathorax smooth and doubly punctate, the 
large setigerous punctures being widely separated. 
Originally described from Indiana. I have seen examples from 
Dubois, Algonquin, and Urbana, Ill., which are in the collection here, and 
from Falls Church and Great Falls, Va., Southern Pines, N. C., and 
Wollaston and East Falmouth, Mass., submitted by Nathan Banks. The 
dates on the specimens range from July 2 to September 3. 
Two examples from Fedor, Lee county, Texas, one from Great 
Falls, and one from Falls Church differ from the others in having an 
impressed line above the outer margin of the tegulae which curves back- 
ward at two-thirds the length of tegula, whereas in the typical examples 
the line fades out and is not recurved. 
The date of the Texas examples is June 21, 1909. 
TIPHIA CLYPEATA Robertson 
The male of this species is distinguished from all others known to 
me by the following combination of characters: Face with deep, large, 
contiguous punctures on lower half and sides, sparsely punctate in front 
of ocelli and with a narrow impunctate space centrally on upper por- 
tion; clypeus flat, doubly punctate except on a moderately broad border 
on apical central portion, this portion over one-third the width of cly- 
peus, its outline transversely truncate; disc of pronotum and central 
portion of mesopleura with large deep punctures, the minute punctures 
absent; basal abdominal segment without transverse incision at middle, 
the preapical depression shallow, with 1-2 series of rather large punc- 
tures. Abdomen with rather large, deep, widely separated punctures; 
