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preapical band well defined, not in depression, but consisting of 

 irregularly distributed, well separated punctures narrowed to a single 

 row at the center. First sternite with lateral grooves on posterior 

 half; no other sculpturing. Tergites 4 and 5 with a more or less 

 interrupted row of minute non-setigerous punctures just before the 

 apex ; apical setigerous punctures scarcely farther removed from the 

 apex medially than at the sides. Pygidium densely and evenly punc- 

 tate on basal three-fifths, with an elongate, impunctate, shagreened 

 emargination ; apex faintly wrinkled and shagreened. Genitalia 

 with outer clasper abruptly constricted near middle, outer edge 

 deepl}'^ emarginate; second genital segment with a small, slender 

 apical hook, inner margin narrowly convex near the hook; distal 

 portion of aedeagus with lateral processes lacking, apical lobes 

 broadly inflated and somewhat polygonal in outline; proximal por- 

 tion of aedeagus slender; constriction separating the two portions 

 not well marked. Length, 10 to 11 mm. 



Male. — We have been unable to separate the male from the male 

 of TWtopolita. 



Distribution. — Hyogo, Japan; Chekiang, China. 



These notes were based on the following material. In the collec- 

 tion of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory : One female, Hangchow, 

 China, October 3, 1924 (Chao) ; 3 males and 18 females, Hangchow, 

 China, July, 1925 (Jaynes) ; 6 males and 5 females with dates from 

 July 10 to July 24, 1926 (Chao) ; 2 questionable males, 1 from Foo- 

 chow, China, July 19, 1924 (Jaynes), and 1 from Ningpo, China, 

 emerged from cocoon August 27, 1925. In the collection of the U. S. 

 National Museum: One female, Hangchow, China, July 7, 1925 

 (Chao); 3 females, Hangchow, China, July, 1925 (Jaynes). De- 

 posited in the collections of the Illinois Natural History Survey, the 

 British Museum, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences : 

 One female to each from Hangchow, China, July, 1925 (Jaynes). 



One female collected at Hangchow, China, October 3, 1924, re- 

 sembles notopolita in having the second intercubitus straight and the 

 metathorax impunctate anteriorly, but is typical in other characters. 



14. TIPHIA STERNOCARINATA, new species 



Female. — Closely related to notopolita notopoUta, from which it 

 differs in the following particulars. Dorsum of pronotum shagreened 

 on the anterior third. Side of pronotum with the central groove deep 

 and uniformly tapering to alar angle without interrupting rugulae; 

 no group of punctures on the anterior half. Mesepisternum conspicu- 

 ously shagreened. Metanotum finely bipunctate apically, with tend- 

 ency to be impunctate anteriorly. Metasternum with its outer pos- 

 terior angle rather more sharply produced, and inclined posteriorly. 



