.Vf«' Aculfitr lIi/inPiini>lfr<t. 17 



II. — Descn'ptiuns of new Genera and Species of Aculeate 

 Ihjmenoplera from the Oriental Zoological Region. liy 



P. Cameron. 



In describing tlie new genera recorded in tliis paper, I liave 

 taken as a basis Kohl's admirable work " Die Gattungen der 

 Spliegiden," Ann. d. k.-k. Hofmnseums, Wien, Band xi. 

 1S06. In the sequence of the genera and species I liave 

 tullowed Col. Bingham in his ' Fauna ot Brit. India,' Hymen. 

 In addition to the genera here described tor the first time, the 

 genus Aginiu is now adicd to the Indian fauna. 



Scoliidae. 



Tiphia hrt-vipeunisy s[). n. 



Nigra ; alls brcvis, flavo-hyaliiiis, nervis flavis; raetniioto ru^joso. J . 

 Ix)ng. 14 mm. 



Ilah. Barrackporc (Uothney). Coll. Rothney. 



Scape of antenna3 thickly covered with long white hair, 

 shining, punctured ; the tlagtlium thickly covered with a 

 pale down ; the base pilose. Front and verte.K shining, 

 strongly and rather closely punctured and covered with pale 

 hairs. Clvpeiis clostdy punctured. Mandibles broadly rufous 

 in the middle; the palpi testaceous. Pronotum strongly 

 punctured, its apex smooth, bare; the base thickly covered 

 with long pale hair. Mesonotum bearing large deep scattered 

 punctures, which are few in the middle; the scutellum 

 similarly ))unctured round the edges and down the middle. 

 Postscutcllum closely and finely punctured ; the scutellum 

 is sparsely covered with long white hair. Median segment 

 finely and closely rugosely punctured ; the central keel does 

 not reach quite to the apex, the outer ones are straight and 

 converge towards the apex j the apex of the segment is 

 slightly concave, smooth, indistinctly furrowed down the 

 middle. The ujjper part of the propleurai is strongly acicu- 

 lated, the rest closely striolated, the lower part rugose; the 

 middle of the mcsojtleuraj shining, jninctured, thickly covered 

 with white pubescence; metapleurai .«hining, closely striated 

 throughout. Mcsosternum shining, sparsely punctured, 

 sparsely covered with long white hair ; the triangular apical 

 area less shining, aciculated, sparsely punctured, deeply 

 furrowed down the middle. Legs thickly covered with white 

 silvery hairs; the calcaria pale, the tarsal spines pale fulvous. 

 Wings short, not reaching much beyond the apex of the second 

 Ann. d: May. S. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 2 



