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and smooth. The petiole beneath is smooth ; the base punc- 

 tured closely ; its middle with a blunt raised tooth ; its basal 

 slope is longer, more rounded than the apical, which has an 

 oblique slope. 



Comes near to T. spinosa, but is smaller; the median 

 segment is not transversely striated in the middle ; the tooth 

 on the petiole is blunter and longer ; the under surface of 

 the petiole at the apex is smooth and shining ; the top of the 

 propleurae smooth and shining, and the mandibles arc 

 rufous. 



Tiphia fulvinerva, sp. n. 



IS T igra, albo hirsuta, propleuris striolatis ; metanoto opaco, medio 

 tres-carinato; alis fulvo-hyalinis, stigoiate nigro, nervis fulvis. 5 . 

 Long. 17 mm. 



Scape of the antennae thickly covered with long white 

 hair; the second and third joints are smooth and shining, 

 sparsely covered with pale hair ; the other joints are opaque 

 and thickly covered with a fulvous down. Front and vertex 

 bearing large, deep, clearly separated punctui'es, and with 

 long fuscous hair ; there is an elongated smooth space before 

 the ocelli ; above and between the antennae is a stout keel. 

 Clypeus closely punctured, its apex smooth and depressed. 

 Mandibles black, obscure rufous near the middle, their 

 lower side fringed with long pale golden hair. Palpi dark 

 testaceous. The basal slope of the pronotum obscurely 

 punctured, smooth below; the basal half of the upper part 

 is strongly punctured, the apical smooth. Mesonotum 

 irregularly punctured, sparsely covered wilh fuscous hair; 

 the scutellum has a few punctures in the middle ; the apex 

 has a row of large deep ones ; the sides are less strongly 

 punctured. Propleuras closely striated ; the basal keel 

 smooth and shining ; the top with a row of punctures ; the 

 lower edge is opaque and strongly shagreened. Mesopleuroe 

 strongly and deeply punctured and covered with long pale 

 hair. Metapleurse closely but not very strongly striated ; 

 the base opaque, shagreened. The basal half of the meso- 

 sternum strongly and deeply punctured, the apical smooth 

 and shining ; in its centre at the apex is a V-shaped area, 

 clearly bounded by deep furrows ; it is widely furrowed 

 down the middle; the furrow is bordered by one or two 

 punctures ; its sides at the apex are triangular. Wings 

 f ulvo-hyaline ; the nervures fulvous, the stigma darker ; the 

 apex of the radius is obliquely depressed and thickcucd ; the 

 first recurrent nervurc is broadly rounded outwardly at the 



