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twice as long as wide, with radius joining it near its apex. Propodeal 

 areola slightly convergent, with concave sides, two and one-half times 

 as long as wide, carinae of uniform height throughout, bordered by 

 irregular grooves, median carina on upper five-sixths. Upper por- 

 tion of sides of propodeum feebly rugose and not clearly differ- 

 entiated from the lower portion, which is faintly striate, with micro- 

 scopic hairs. Posterior aspect of propodeum feebly sculptured, with 

 faint carina on lower half or less. First tergite with its preapical 

 band in a faint depression and consisting of a single row of small 

 punctures separated by interspaces exceeding their diameters. First 

 sternite as broad as long, coriaceous at constriction but becoming 

 minutely setulose posteriorly along the sides ; lateral grooves on pos- 

 terior half or less, Tergites with punctures rather small; length of 

 impunctate apices of intermediate tergites more than half length of 

 pun,ctate portion medially. Pygidium rather finely punctate on 

 upper half; apex scarcely wrinkled. Length, 6 mm. 



Male. — Not known. 



Distribution. — Assam, India. 



Type.— C?it. No. 41Y88, U.S.N.M. Female, Shillong, India, Insec- 

 tary reared, 302-0. 



Paratype. — One female in the collection of the Japanese Beetle 

 Laboratory, from the same lot as the type. 



This species was obtained from cocoons collected in India and 

 shipped to the New Jersey station. Emergence occurred in the fall 

 of 1927. 



19. TIPHIA POPILLIAVORA Rohwer 



Plate 1, fig. 3 ; plate 3, figs. 21, 22 ; plate 4, figs. 27. 28 



Tiphia popilliavora Rohwek, Proe. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 26, p. 89, 1924. — 

 Clausen, King, aud Tejranishi, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 1429, pp. 33-39, 

 fig. 24, 1927.— King and Haixock, Joui-n. Econ. Ent, vol. 18, p. 356, 

 1925. — King, Allen, and Hallock, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 20, p. 368 and 

 p. 373, 1927. 



The following notes are supplementary to the original description. 



Feniale. — Vertex with several irregular patches of primary punc- 

 tures of first-degree density, the one immediately back of the ocellar 

 triangle much denser than the area on either side of it; minute punc- 

 tures in irregular linear series on the median dorsal line extending 

 from the occipital region towards the ocellar triangle. Mandibles 

 with an uninterrupted median groove. Pronotum not shagreened, 

 with a fairly well differentiated transverse discal band; punctures on 

 lateral disks sparse, with distinct primaries always present. Scutum 

 with its notauli and its antero-medial groove not continuous. Meta- 

 notum sparsely bipunctate, with median longitudinal impression; 

 largest punctures scarcely half the size of those of the scutellum. Leg 



