Iltjmenoptcra from Northern India. 285 



Tiphia tuber culuta, sp. n. 



Nigra, mandibulis rufis, tarsis testaceis ; alis fusco-hyalinis, nervis 



fuscis, tegulis rufis ; basi petioli subtus tuberculata. $ . 

 Long. 8 mm. 



Antennae black, the apical joints rufous beneath ; the scape 

 is finely and closely punctured above, the sides and lower 

 side covered with long silvery hair ; the base of the flagellura 

 is sparsely covered with white hair ; the rest of it bears a 

 Avhite pubescence. The fi'ont is closely punctured below, 

 more sparsely above ; the vertex is similarly punctured ; both 

 are thickly covered with long fuscous hair; the clypeus 

 smooth, shining, punctured closely at the base, its apex 

 rounded. Mandibles red, black at the apex ; their underside 

 fringed with long golden hair. Palpi testaceous, the apical 

 joints paler. Pronotum coarsely punctured, its apex smooth, 

 the basal slope finely and closely punctured. The middle of 

 the mesonotum is strongly but not closely punctured, its 

 base and sides smooth, bare ; the base in the middle slightly 

 depressed. Scutellum strongly punctured (except in the 

 middle) ; the postscutellum finely punctured. Median seg- 

 ment strongly aciculated ; the three keels are almost parallel 

 and all reach to the apex ; the space bounded by them has a 

 blistered appearance ; the apex at the sides is depressed and 

 bears a few striae ; the apical slope is blistered, is thickly 

 covered with a white pubescence, and is obscurely keeled 

 down the middle. The top of the propleunc is smooth, the 

 rest obscurely punctured ; below the middle is an oblique 

 keel. Mesopleurse closely punctured, the apical slope strongly 

 aciculated ; the pubescence is thick and pale. Metapleurje 

 closely striated, much more finely, almost strongly aciculated 

 on tlie base below. Mesosternum sparsely punctured, 

 shining ; the hair long and fuscous ; the apical area is trian- 

 gular at the base ; finely furrowed down the middle, the apex 

 in the middle triangularly depressed. Legs black ; the fore 

 knees, the apex of the tibise, and the tarsal spines rufous ; 

 the tibial spines are pale. The second transverse cubital 

 nervure is roundly curved outwardly in the middle ; the first 

 recurrent nervure is received shortly, but distinctly, before 

 the middle of the cellule and is roundly curved above ; the 

 second is received close to the apical third of the cellule. 

 Abdomen shining, sparsely punctured, the middle and apical 

 segments thickly covered with long white hair; the base of 

 the second segment is depressed and marked with longitu- 

 dinal keels all over ; the apical half of the pygidium is rufous 



