128 Mr. R. E. Turner on the 



intermediate tibiae dark fusco-ferruginous ; the antennas, 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi, intermediate tarsi, and the apex of 

 the pygidium dark ferruginous. Wings flavo-liyaline, 

 nervures ferruginous, the stigma fuscous. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. A. K. Marshall); 

 December. 



Very near T. pedestris, Gerst., but in that- species the 

 abdomen is almost smooth ; the colour is also different. 

 The present species has a fine transverse carina at the base 

 of the first abdominal segment above the anterior truncation, 

 which is not mentioned by Gerstaecker in his description of 

 T. pedestris. 



Tiphia brevipennis, Luc. 



Tiphia brevipennis, Luc. Explor. scient. de l'Alggrie, iv. p. 285, pi. 15. 



fig. 9 (1846), £ (nee Cameron). 

 Psetuhtiphia brevipennis, Ashm. Cam. Ent. xxxv. p. G (1903), 2 . 



Ashmead makes a new genus for this species and places it 

 in his family Myzinidae, but without giving any reason for 

 the change. The shortened and useless wings and the 

 smaller eyes seem to be the only characters distinguishing 

 the species from Tiphia, and unless the male when discovered 

 also shows distinguishing features, which is not very pro- 

 bable, I do not consider the formation of a new genus 

 necessary, much less the removal into a different family. 

 Tijyhia brevipennis, Cam. from Barrackpore is quite a different 

 species and will have to receive a new name, so I propose 

 the name Tiphia petri for that species. 



Tiphia meridionalisj sp. n. 



$ . Head closely and rather deeply punctured, most 

 closely on the front, most sparsely round the ocelli; the 

 scape punctured, with long hairs beneath and a few shorter 

 hairs above, scarcely exceeding in length the second and 

 third joints of the flagellum combined. Pronotum rather 

 closely punctured anteriorly, the posterior half smooth and 

 shining, the face of the anterior truncation finely and rather 

 sparsely punctured; the propleurse smooth and shining at 

 the summit, striated below ; mesopleuraa rather strongly but 

 not very closely punctured ; mesonotum sparsely punctured, 

 most closely on the middle, the tegulaj smooth and shining, 

 the scutellum very sparsely punctured. Median segment 

 shining, very minutely punctured, nearly twice as broad as 

 long in the middle, a little depressed posteriorly before the 

 base of the truncation, the three carina? parallel and rather 



