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Paratypes. — In the National Museum : Two females and 10 males^ 

 Jap. Beetle Par. Exp. No. 202; 1 male, unlabelled. Retained in the 

 collection of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory : One female and 1 male, 

 Jap. Beetle Par. Exp. No. 202. In the collections of the British 

 Museum, the Illinois Natural History Survey, and the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences: One each of the same lot as those 

 retained at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory. 



From cocoons collected in India, which were mostly of pullivorcb^ 

 cajrillatay and levipy/rictata^ adults were reared in limited numbers 

 at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, 



Mr. Gahan reports that fuscinervis Cameron is represented in the 

 British Museum by a female and 2 males from the Kanga Valley. 

 The original description is from a female collected at " Mussori " by 

 Rotlmey. Tiphia capiUata^ according to Gahan, is tlie same species 

 as the specimens in the British Museum determined as fuscinervis^ 

 but since the type of fuscinervis was not examined, the authors 

 consider it best to call the specimens listed above a new species. 



18. TIPHIA LEVIPUNCTATA, new spccits 



Female. — Vertex with primary punctures scarcely denser medially 

 than on either side, of third-degree density except narrow line of 

 first degree near eye. Front faintly shagreened, with a linear medial 

 impression on lower half; primary punctures very small and every- 

 where of third-degree density, though much more sparse on upper 

 half, where there are a number of interspaces two to three times as 

 broad as an ocellus. Clypeal extension with the length of its im- 

 punctate margin uniform from side ot side, and more than half as 

 great as clypeoantennal distance. Mandibles, apex of first antennal 

 joint, and under side of flagellum fulvous. Pronotum with its trans- 

 verse carina complete, though weak; primary punctures sparse and 

 poorly outlined, nearly as dense on lateral disks as medially, trans- 

 verse discal band weakly developed; secondary punctures not ap- 

 parent ; punctate portion with its longitudinal extension medially as 

 great as the impunctate apex. Side of pronotum with a vague central 

 groove in the midst of finer striations. Metanotum with impunctate 

 spots on disk and dense minute punctures about the margins, none of 

 which are nearly as large as the primaries of the scutellum. Legs 

 with the trochanters, femora, and tibiae of the last two pairs, as well 

 as the inner surfaces and tarsi of the first and the tarsi of the second 

 bright red ; major calcarium of the hind tibia widest just before the 

 middle; hind basitarsus with three lanceolate spines on the outside, 

 one of which is apical. Tegula red, thin, semitransparent. Wing 

 hyaline; terminal stump of cubital longer than preceding abscissa, 

 sinuous on a course perpendicular to costa; stigma much less than 



