120 Mr. R, E. Turner mi the 



legs and antennae black, the stigma is also black and ratlier 

 longer, and the nervures fuscous. Otherwise, except for the 

 rather longer and narrower shape of the stigma, it does not 

 seem to differ from the type. Specimens from Lower Burma 

 have the antennae and nervures dark, but the legs are red as 

 in the tyt>e. The species is easily distinguished by the very 

 large stigma, which is as large as in many of the males of 

 the genus. The type apparently came from Northern India. 



Tiphia auripennis, Bingh. 



Tiphia auripennis, Bingh. Fauna Brit. India, Ilym. i. p. G4 (1897), $ . 

 Tiphia curvinervis, Cam. Entomologist, p. 2;38 (1902), $ . 

 TijMa fidvinerva, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii. p. 286 

 (1904), $. 



Cameron states that fidvinerva is quite distinct from aiiri- 

 pemits, but does not say how it differs, and I fail to find any 

 difference of specific importance. 



Tiphia persica, sp. n. 



$ . Olypens short, truncate at the apex, sparsely punc- 

 tured^ the apical margin smooth. Head shining, sparsely 

 punctured, very sparsely behind the ocelli ; scape finely and 

 closely punctured, with long golden hairs beneath ; the head 

 is rather large and strongly rounded posteriorly. Pronotum 

 deeply but rather sparsely punctured, broadly smooth and 

 shining posteriorly, the surface of the anterior truncation 

 finely and closely pnnctured ; propleurse striated, very ob- 

 scurely at the summit, more strongly below ; mesopleurge 

 sparsely punctured. Mesonotum almost smooth on the sides, 

 deeply punctured in the middle, tlie tegulse smooth. Scutellum 

 sparsely, but deeply, punctured, the centre almost smooth > 

 the postscutellum finely and s})arsely punctured. Median 

 segment subopaque, finely rugulose, almost smooth and 

 shining near the apical angles, the three longitudinal carinse 

 parallel and all reaching to the apex, the surface of the 

 posterior truncation shallowly punctured, the sides of th& 

 segment closely striated. Abdomen closely and rather finely 

 punctured, more sparsely and deeply on the two basal seg- 

 ments, the four apical segments much more finely punctured 

 at the base than at the apex, all the segments narrowly 

 smooth on the apical margin, the epipygium coarsely punc- 

 tured-rugose in the middle. The second recurrent uervure 

 is received by the second cubital cell at about two-thirds 

 from the base ; the second transverse cubital nervure is 

 oblique, strongly curved outwards on the upper half. 



Black, with white j)ubeseuce ; the mandibles and the 



