Hymenopterous Gtnus Tiphia. 123 



Tiphia intrudens, Sm. 



1 can see no important distinctions in specimens of this 

 wide-ranging species from most distant localities ; females 

 of the Indian form of the species usually have the second 

 cubital cell rather longer, and the pubescence on the abdomen 

 in a pair taken by me in Assam (6000 ft.) is closer and of a 

 distinctly fulvous colour in both sexes. 



Hah. My sol ( Wallace) ; Mackay and Cairns, Q. {Turner); 

 Burma; Assam [Bingham). 



This is the only species of the genus known to occur in 

 Australia. The specimens from Queensland have the median 

 segment shorter in the female and the wings paler in both 

 sexes than in the typical form, clear hyaline in the male. 

 1 propose the name T. intrudens, st. brevior, st. n., for the 

 Australian form. 



Tiphia annandalei, sp. n. 



? . Clypeus truncate at the apex, closely punctured at the 

 base, the apex smooth and depressed. Head punctured, but 

 not very deeply or closely, the space round the base of the 

 antennae very minutely and closely punctured; the posterior 

 ocelli twice as far from the eyes as from each other. Scape 

 finely and closely punctured, with long pale fulvous hairs 

 beneath and a few shorter hairs above, the two basal joints 

 of the flagellum shining and sparsely punctured. Pronotum 

 closely punctured on the anterior third, the posterior two- 

 thirds smooth and shining; the anterior slope rather closely 

 punctured, smooth in the middle ; the propleune rather 

 deeply punctured at the margins, shining and almost smooth, 

 with very fine and almost obsolete strise, a row of deep 

 punctures a little before the posterior margin ; the meso- 

 pleurse shining and very sparsely punctured. Mesonotum 

 and scutellum very sparsely punctured, a curved row of deep 

 punctures close to the posterior angles of the scutellum, the 

 tegulas subopaque, shining at the apex. Median segment 

 slightly convex, nearly as long as broad, subopaque and 

 finely aciculated, smooth and shining at the posterior angles, 

 the three longitudinal carinas parallel and all reaching the 

 apex. Abdomen shining and punctured, the two basal 

 segments very sparsely, the third and fourth more closely at 

 the base, the four basal segments with a transverse row of 

 punctures before the apical margin ; the fifth segment deeply 

 and closely punctured ; the pygidium rugose at the base, the 

 apical half with eight or nine broad but not very strongly 

 elevated longitudinal carinas, those in the middle more 



