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The female of this species has the following characters, by which 

 it can be separated readily from the female of the closely related 

 inconspicua : The medial patch of dense primary punctures on the 

 vertex is lacking, but the secondary punctures on the lateral portion 

 of vertex are more numerous; the latero-apical process of the 

 metasternite is not bidentate on the surface facing the hind coxa; 

 the second intercubital vein is straight, or at least not acutely bent 

 near the middle, and joins the radius at a point as far from the 

 wing base as its posterior origin in the cubitus. 



24. TIPHIA MALAYANA Cameron 



Tiphia mulayana Cameron, Entom. Runds., 27 Jalir, p. 130, 1910. 

 Tiphia sp. no. II4 King, Allen, and Hallock, Jouru. P^con. Eiit., vol. 20, 

 p. 371, 1927. 



Female. — Vertex with primary punctures largely of third-degree 

 density, with medial patch slightly denser than patches on either 

 side; several minute punctures on medial line near posterior 

 declivity. Front slightly shagreened on lower half; usually no 

 carina or impunctate stripe; primary punctures of first-degree den- 

 sity from eye to eye on lower third and upward to vertex along in- 

 ner orbits, of third-degree density in front of ocelli, everywhere 

 regular in spacing. The length of the impunctate margin of the 

 clypeal extension nearly one-half as great as the clypeoantennal 

 distance. Antenna with the third joint distinctly shorter than its 

 greatest width; fiagellum fulvous beneath. Pronotum with the 

 primary punctures of uniform size and well differentiated from 

 secondaries, of first-degree density except for small latero-discal 

 spots; transverse discal band not differentiated. Side of pronotum 

 with a deep, continuous groove across the center, but lacking other 

 conspicuous sculpturing. Metanotum with the largest punctures 

 much finer than those of the sctutellum. Legs with major calcarium 

 of hind tibiae distinctly widest at bend near middle ; hmd basitarsus 

 with a shallow groove half the length of joint, outside with a row 

 of three long, lanceolate spines, of which one is apical. Tegula red 

 to black, rarely transparent; inner posterior angle produced and 

 densely pilose, with several sub-erect hairs arising above the tegulae 

 when viewed from across the dorsum. Wings faintly smoky; 

 stigma more than twice as long as wide, extending laterally in 

 broad curve from junction with radius. Propodeal areola slightly 

 convergent, distinctly keystone-shaped, from two to two and one- 

 half times as long as wide ; carinae sharp and narrow, bordered with 

 well developed grooves; median carina extending nine-tenths the 

 distance to transverse carina. Lower portion of side of propodeum 

 shagreened, usually with a large patch of very minute, dense hairs. 



