JVeiv Aculeate Ilymenoptera . 17 



ir. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera from the Oriental Zoological Region. By 

 P. Cameron. j. 



In describing tlie new genera recorded in this paper, I have 

 taken as a basis Kohl's admirable work " Die Gattungen der 

 Si)hegiden," Ann. d. k.-k. Hofmuseums, Wien, Band xi. 

 1896. In the sequence of the genera and species I Iiave 

 followed Col. Bingham in his ' Fauna of Brit. India,' Hymen. 

 In addition to the genera here described for the first time, the 

 genus Agenia is now added to the Indian fauna. 



Scoliidse. 



Tiphia brevipenniSf sp. n. 



Nigra ; alls brevia, flavo-hyalinis, nervis flavis; metanoto rugoso. 2 ■ 

 Long. 14 mm. 



Hab. Barrack pore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney. 



Scape of antennae thickly covered with long white hair, 

 shining, punctured ; the flageUum thickly covered with a 

 pale down ; the base pilose. Front and vertex shining, 

 strongly and rather closely punctured and covered with pale 

 hairs. Clypeus closely punctured. Mandibles broadly rufous 

 in the middle; the palpi testaceous. Pronotum strongly 

 punctured, its apex smooth, bare ; the base thickly covered 

 with long pale hair. Mesonotum bearing large deep scattered 

 punctures, which are few in the middle; the scutellum 

 similarly punctured round the edges and down the middle. 

 Postscutellum closely and finely punctured ; the scutellum 

 is sparsely covered with long white hair. Median segment 

 finely and closely rugosely punctured ; the central keel does 

 not reach quite to the apex, the outer ones are straight and 

 converge towards the apex ; the apex of the segment is 

 slightly concave, smooth, indistinctly furrowed down the 

 middle. The upper part of the propleurse is strongly acicu- 

 lated, the rest closely striolated, the lower part rugose; the 

 middle of the mesopleurse shining, i)unctured, thickly covered 

 with white pubescence; metapleura3 shining, closely striated 

 throughout. Mesosternum shining, sparsely punctured, 

 sparsely covered with long white hair ; the triangular apical 

 area less shining, aciculated, sparsely punctured, deeply 

 furrowed down the middle. Legs thickly covered with white 

 silvery hairs ; the calcaria pale, the tarsal spines pale fulvous. 

 Wings short, not reaching much beyond the apex of the second 

 Ann. <& Mag. N. Hist. 8er. 7. Vol. v. 2 



