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tate. Side of pronotum with more or less distinctly separated punc- 

 tures in a band posterior to carina and narrowly along dorsal border. 

 Scutum with its notauli and anterior medial groove continuous or 

 nearly so and its punctures evenly distributed. Mesepisternum with 

 a well-developed premarginal groove on its posterior slope. Metano- . 

 turn with a vestigial apical callosity, elsewhere densely and coarsely 

 punctate, the primary punctures scarcely smaller than those of the 

 scutellum. Legs with major calcarium of hind tibia uniformly taper- 

 ing; hind basitarsus on the outside with a series of two lanceolate 

 spines, but none of the same type at the apex. Tegula with the inner 

 hind angle somewhat produced and upcurled, with densely pilose 

 hairs. Wings moderately smoky. Propodeal areola hastate, strongly 

 convergent, twice as long as wide ; carinae low, bordered by irregular 

 grooves; median carina much Avider anteriorly and not quite com- 

 plete. Lower portion of sides of propodeum polished, striate, pos- 

 terior third minutely setulo-punctate. Posterior aspect of propodeum 

 densely reticulo-punctate ; median carina developed on lowest fourth. 

 First tergite with its larger punctures dimpled; without preapical 

 band, but with a deep preapical groove overlapped at the middle. 

 First sternite flat and polished, with a shallow median groove crossed 

 by short, transverse ridges, and a lateral groove on the posterior 

 half; with scattered, shallow punctures on the anterior half. Ter- 

 gites 2, 3, and 4 with marginal incised lines but lacking areas of dense 

 secondary punctures or very short, erect, brown pile. Pygidium 

 coarsely reticulo-punctate on basal three-fifths; without a well dif- 

 ferentiated impunctate emargination of the punctate base; apex 

 faintly shagreened below the punctures and longitudinally wrinkled 

 at the sides. Length, 10.5 mm. 



DistHhution. — Shizuoka, Kanagawa, Japan. 



Type.— Cdit. No. 41777, U.S.N.M. Female, Miho, Japan, October 

 1, 1926. 



Paratypes. — In the collection of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory: 

 One female, Miho, Japan, October 1, 1926. Deposited with the Brit- 

 ish Museum : One female, Miho, Japan, October 1, 1926. Deposited 

 in the United States National Museum: One female, Yokohama, 

 Japan, July 17, 1920 (Clausen), Clausen No. 1382. 



One male from Morioka, Japan, August 20, 1920 (Clausen), in 

 the United States National Museum belongs in the l-oreana group, 

 and may be the male of this species. 



6. TIPHIA AUTUMNALIS Rohwer 



Tiphia autumnalis Rohwer, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 26, p. 88, 1924 



The following notes supplementary to the original description will 

 aid in fixing the species. Vertex with small patches of punctures of 



