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hair. Mesonotum ])nnctured, more sparsely and irregularly 

 on the sideSj and tliickly covered Avith short fuscous pubes- 

 cence. Scutellora punctured like the mesonotum ; post- 

 scntellum more closely and finely punctured. The middle of 

 the metanotum hears three parallel keels ; the space enclosed 

 by them is strongly irregularly acicnlated ; the sides are 

 closely striated ; the apex is strongly acicnlated and thickly 

 covered with a pale pubescence ; the top is depressed and 

 longitudinally striated. Propleurje smooth and shining ; 

 the base below strongly acicnlated. Mesopleurse sparsely 

 punctured and thickly covered with pale pubescence. Meta- 

 pleurae striated (except at the base, which is strongly acicn- 

 lated). Prosternum largely roundly tuberculated laterally 

 on the apical half; the middle depressed. Mesopleurae with 

 two curved divergent furrows; the space between at the apex 

 depressed in the middle. Legs thickly covered with white 

 hair ; the fore femora and tibiae and the middle tibiae less 

 broadly rufous. Abdomen shining ; the third and following 

 segments thickly covered with bright fulvous pubescence; 

 before the apex of the petiole is a narrow, longitudinally 

 striated, transverse furrow ; on the base of the second 

 segment is a deeper, more regularly striated furrow ; the 

 apical segments are strongly punctured ; the pygidium is 

 smooth down the middle. Beneath, the base of the petiole 

 is strongly acicnlated, opaque, sharply keeled at the base 

 and less strongly down the sides ; the apex is more strongly 

 obliquely raised ; in front of this is a stout strongly acicn- 

 lated keel which reaches near to the middle, becoming 

 narrower and smoother as it does so ; the middle is sparsely 

 punctured ; the apical half very smooth and shining ; the 

 second ventral segment is sparsely, the others more closely 

 and distinctly, punctured and thickly covered Avith fuscous 

 hair. The transverse median nervure is received distinctly 

 behind the transverse basal ; the apex of the radius is roundly 

 curved ; the second transverse cubital nervure is straight, 

 oblique ; the third is rounded outwardly at the top and 

 oblique below ; the second recurrent nervure is received in 

 the middle of the cellule. 



B. The first transverse median nervure not placed distinctly behinrl the 

 basal ; the petiole without a stout keel on its ventral surface. 



Tiphia himalaijensis, sp. n. 



Black, densely covered with longish dark silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the pro- and metapleune closely obliquely striated ; 



