28S Mr. P. Ciimeioii on new 



segment is opaque, coarsely aciculated, tlie sides near the 

 base finely striated ; the apex is smoother and more shining ; 

 there are two keels which reach to the apex and a less 

 distinct one which reaches on to the middle ; the apex has a 

 blistered appearance, is sparsely, obscurely punctured, and 

 has an indistinct keel down the middle. The upper part of 

 the propleurae is aciculated, the lower Hnely and closely longi- 

 tudinally striated ; the middle o£ the mesopleurae is closely 

 punctured and thickly covered with long white hair ; the 

 apical half of the metapleurte is strongly striated ; the striae 

 are distinctly separated. The basal half of the mesosternum 

 is punctured ; from the middle, on either side, a curved 

 furrow runs to the sides at the apex ; the space bounded by 

 them is strongly punctured; outside them it is smooth. Legs 

 black, the hair white ; the calcaria rufous, as are also the 

 tarsal spines. Wings uniformly fuscous violaceous, the 

 nervures and stigma black ; the second transverse cubital 

 nervure is only slightly oblique and is roundly curved 

 above ; the second recurrent nervure is received at the base 

 of the basal third of the cellule. Abdomen shining ; the 

 segments finely and sparsely punctured in the middle ; the 

 apical segments thickly covered with long white hair ; the 

 pygidium strongly punctured, the apex smooth, keeled in the 

 middle, depressed laterally. 



ii. 3Jedi(in ser/ntoit ivith fve keeh. 



Tiph'ia quimjuecarinata, sp. n. 



Nigra, flagt'llo antennarum, maudibulis, tarsis abJomiiiisquc apice 



rufis ; alls fulvo-hyalinis, nervis rufis, stigmate uigro. $ . 

 Long. 11 mm. 



Antennae rufous, theflagellum black above, thickly covered 

 with a pale down ; the scape black, shining, sparsely covered 

 with long white hair. Head shining ; the front and vertex 

 punctured, but not very closely, and sparsely covered with 

 fuscous hair. Clypeus projecting ; its apex rounded. 

 Mandibles rufous, black at the base, their underside fringed 

 with long golden hair; palpi testaceous. Thorax shining; 

 the pronotum marked, but not closely, with large punctures, 

 its apex smooth. Mesonotura strongly and closely punctured 

 in the middle, more s|)arsely on the sides, and thickly covered 

 with fuscous hairs. Scutellum with a row of large punctures 

 round the apex, and there is a more scattered and irregular 

 row on the sides ; postscutellum smooth, without punctures. 

 The three central keels on the median segment are parallel; 



