TIPHIA FEMORATA. 4/ 



Genus 1. TIPHIA. 



Tiphia,pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 223 (1793). 

 Bethylus, pt., Panz. Krit. Revis. ii. 134 (1805). 



Head as wide as the thorax; eyes ovate and lateral; stem- 

 mata in a triangle on the vertex ; antennae filiform, shorter than 

 the thorax ; the scape short and stout ; the first joint of the fla- 

 gellum shortest, the rest of nearly equal length ; the antennas 

 are curved in the female, but straight in the male; the man- 

 dibles arcuate, with a longitudinal groove exteriorly. Thorax 

 elongate, the collar transverse in front, the hinder margin ex- 

 tending to the insertion of the wings ; the metathorax abruptly 

 truncated, the sides deeply excavated ; the anterior wings with 

 one marginal cell, open at its apex in the female, but closed in 

 the male ; two submarginal cells, the first elongate, twice as long 

 as the second, receiving the first recurrent nervure ; the second 

 submarginal, widened at its apex, receiving the second recurrent 

 nervure about one-third from its apex ; the legs short and stout, 

 the femora wide and compressed ; the intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae thickly spinose ; the tarsi elongate, the apex of the joints 

 with long rigid cilia ; the claws bifid, with a small pulvillus be- 

 tween them. Abdomen elongate, ovate, petiolated ; the petiole 

 short, toothed on each side ; the first segment subpyriform, nar- 

 rower than the second ; the apex, in the male, furnished with an 

 upcurved spine. 



1. Tiphia femorata. 

 Fcemina. Nigra, pilosa ; femoribus quatuor posticis compressis 



rufis, linea intermedia elevata inetathoracis lineam transversam 



non attingente. 

 Mas. Totus niger. 



Tiphia femorata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 353. 1 ? ; Ent. Syst. ii. 223. 1 ; 

 Syst. Piez. 232. 1. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 67. 828. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 53. 2. 



Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 267. 



Jurine, Hym. 149. t. 9. f. 11 ? . 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 81. 1. 



St. Farg. fy Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 655. 



Vand.Lind. 0^.279. 1. 



