AET. 17 WASPS OF THE GENUS TIPHIA ALLEN AND JAYNES 41 



Type and allotype.— C^lL No. 41783, U.S.M.N. Type, female, 

 Ningpo, China, August 14, 1925 (Chao). Allotype, Ningpo, China, 

 September 1, 1925 (Chu). 



Paratypes. — In the collection of the U. S. National Museum : One 

 female, Yokohama, Japan, September 15, 1921 (Clausen) ; 1 male 

 and 1 female, Ningpo, China, September 6 to 10, 1925; 2 males, 

 Kuliang, China, 1926 (Jen) ; 3 females, Penniu, China, Nos. 134, 316, 

 and 428, respectively; 2 females, Penniu, China, 1926 (Wong), 

 Jaynes No. 116; 2 males, Suigen, Chosen, Jap. Beetle Par. Exp. No. 

 318, and 2 males, August 8 and 21, 1922 (King). Retained in the 

 collection of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory: One male, Ningpo, 

 China, September 1, 1925 (Chu), 1 female, Ningpo, China, Septem- 

 ber 2, 1925, D9. Deposited in the collection of the Illinois Natural 

 History Survey : One male, Penniu, China, Jap. Beetle Par. Exp. 

 No. 205 ; 1 female, Ningpo, China, September 8, 1925, D18. In the 

 British Museum: One male, Kuliang, China, 1926 (Jen) ; 1 female. 

 Ningpo, China, August 25, 1925, D3. To the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Sciences: One male from Kuliang, China, 1926 (Jen); 

 1 female, Ningpo, China, September 10, 1925. Notes by the junior 

 author on his No. 116 refer to this species and variety. 



All the males listed above are probably referable to the variety 

 notopolita^ but in this sex the varieties could not be distinguished. 

 The two from Suigen may be intermedia. The male genitalia are 

 very similar to those of TufoTnandibulata. No other taxonomic 

 characters were found by which the varieties, in the male sex, could 

 be separated or distinguished from males of i%bfomandibulata. 



TIPHIA NOTOPOLITA var. INTERMEDIA, new variety 



Female. — The variety, in this sex, has many of the characters 

 both of rufomamdihuLata and of notopolita notopolita., but resembles 

 the latter more strongly, and is probably more accurately placed 

 here as a variety than as a separate species or as a variety of i^ufo- 

 mandibxdata. It differs from the variety notopolita in the following 

 characters: Sides of the pronotum with a central groove broken 

 by unsculptured interspaces as in notopolita or continuous. Meta- 

 notum sparsely punctuate with small primary punctures and 

 usually with a dense medial patch of minute punctures. Tegula 

 with a posterior marginal groove and usually with a lateral margi- 

 nal groove, both terminating in pronounced inward-directed hooks 

 at the outer hind angle. 



Type.— Cat. No. 41784, U.S.N.M. Female, Suigen, Chosen, 

 September 25, 1924 (Sato), Clausen No. 1855. 



To this variety are referred the following female paratypes. In 

 the collection of the United States National Museum : Six, Suigen, 

 Chosen, August 8, 21, 23, and 24, 1922 (King), Rohwer No. 7; 



