96 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Paratiphia ^qualis n. sp. 



9 . — Head with large, deep punctures, sparser on the 

 vertex, finer and closer on the cheeks; front before the 

 ocelli smooth and glabrous; clypeus rounded anteriorly; 

 flagellum stout, the first joint slightly shorter than the 

 second; scape strongly punctured and bearing white hair; 

 ocelli placed in pits; prothorax above, except hind mar- 

 gin, with coarse, somewhat confluent punctures ; dorsulum 

 with large scattered punctures, the lateral impressions 

 deep; scutellum and postscutellum punctured like the 

 dorsulum, the scutellum strongly impressed medially; 

 metathorax above finely shagreened, and at the apex with 

 some strong folds or ruga?, the posterior face more strong- 

 ly shagreened and indistinctly punctured; propleura^ 

 strongly punctured, sparsely so on lower portion; meta- 

 pleurae with coarse striations ; spines of tibiae and tarsi 

 reddish testaceous, the calcaria white; first and second 

 dorsal abdominal segments about equally punctured, the 

 second ventral a little more strongly so; the remaining 

 segments more closely punctured; last dorsal segment, 

 except apical portion, coarsely roughened. Black; head, 

 thorax, especially on fore part of prothorax and legs, with 

 pale pubescence; a fringe at apex of ventral abdominal 

 and the sides of the dorsal segments of whitish hair; 

 mandibles medially and tip of last dorsal abdominal seg- 

 ment reddish. Length 11-12 mm. 



(5 . — Head rather finely punctured; antennre stout, the 

 first joint of flagellum a little more than half as long as the 

 second; in length the antenna; reach slightly beyond the 

 tegular; prothorax rather finely punctured, its lateral 

 angles not acute ; punctuation of dorsulum and scutel- 

 lum stronger and sparser than that of the prothorax; 

 upper surface of metathorax with two approximate foveas 

 in the middle, on each side of these fovece the metathorax 



