84 HYMENOPTERA. 
8. TIPHIA RUFICORNIS. 
Tiphia ruficornis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 555.49. 
Lucas, Explo. Se. Algér. iu. 286. 
Hab. Algeria; Genoa. 
9. TIPHIA BREVIPENNIS. B.M. 
Tiphia brevipennis, Lucas, Ewplo. Sc. Algér. iii. 299. 285. t. 15. 
£.'9. 
Hab. Algeria. 
10, TrpH1a CAPENSIS. 
Tiphia Capensis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 554.19. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
11. TrpHIA CHALYBEA. 
Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and prothorax blue-green ; 
the mesothorax, legs and abdomen of a steel-blue; the head and 
thorax with large scattered punctures; the metathorax subru- 
gose, the superior surface having three longitudinal elevated 
lines, the central one abbreviated, not extending to the transverse 
one upon the verge of the truncation ; wings dark fuscous. 
Abdomen having large scattered punctures, those at the base of 
the segments finer and closer. 
Hab. Brazil. (Coll. F. Smith.) 
12. TIPHIA NITIDA. B.M. 
Female. Length 53 lines.—Black, smooth and shining, the 
head covered with large deep punctures; the flagellum beneath 
towards the base and the mandibles ferruginous; the prothorax 
has a few scattered punctures, the posterior margin of the scu- 
tellum also slightly punctured, the metathorax impunctate, the 
superior surface having three longitudinal carinz, the middle one 
abbreviated, not extending to the carina on the verge of the 
truncation which is continued along the lateral margins; wings 
slightly fuseous ; the ealearia and spines which arm the joints of 
the tarsi, ferruginous. Abdomen: the first and second segments 
having a few scattered delicate punctures, the two following seg- 
ments punctured at their basal and apical margins, the two api- 
cal ones more strongly punctured ; beneath, strongly punctured, 
particularly the second segment, which is covered with large deep 
shallow punctures. 
Hab. Jamaica. 
