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sides and above; median carina varying from poorly developed to 

 nearly complete. First abdominal tergite with a preapical band 

 consisting of a well-differentiated single row of punctures in a 

 narrow depression. First sternite flat, without lateral groove; 

 sparse, deep punctures anteriorly. Tergites 4 and 5 without im- 

 punctate apices of greater width than nearby primary punctures. 

 Pygidum deejjly rugose-punctate, with many sharp, blax;k, longi- 

 tudinal ridges extending to the extreme apex. Hypopygium with 

 very narrow median impunctate stripe confined to the apical third or 

 less. Length, 8.5 to 13 mm. 



Male. — Not known. 



Distribution. — Keikido, Chosen. 



Ty^e.—Q^X. No. 41796, U.S.N.M. Female, Suigen, Chosen, July, 

 1926 (Gardner), Gardner No. 9. 



Paratypes. — All females from Suigen, Chosen. In the United 

 States National Museum : One, July 1, 1927, Gardner No. 9. In the 

 collection of the Illinois Natural History Survey: One, July 1926 

 (Gardner), Gardner No. 9. In the collection of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences: One, July 3, 1925 (Sato), Gardner 

 No. 9. In the collection of the British Museum: One, July 5, 1925 

 (Sato), Gardner No. 9. Retained in the collection of the Japanese 

 Beetle Laboratory: One, July 5, 1925 (Sato), Gardner No. 9. 



This species has been known to the workers of the Japanese Beetle 

 Project as Gardner No. 9. 



29. TIPHIA CILICINCTA, new species 



Male. — Vertex with a well-defined medial patch of primary punc- 

 tures scarcely of first-degree density. Front with a low, linear, 

 medial carina ; primary punctures unusually large, round, and clearlj 

 outlined, with preocellar region large and having several interspaces 

 as broad as ocelli; secondary punctures inconspicuous but present 

 medially on lowest fourth. Antennocular distance less than width of 

 antennal fossa. Clypeal extension witn its apical width scarcely 

 exceeded by clypeoantennal distance; apex shallowly emarginate, 

 densely punctate to the thick margin; disk flattened. Pronotum 

 wdth its punctures rather uniformly and sparsely of second-degree 

 or third-degree density; secondary punctures lacking. Side of pro- 

 notum rather smooth and polished, with an interrupted groove ex- 

 tending in a broad curve from the border of the transverse carina to 

 the rather densely punctate alar angle. Mesepisternum with clearly 

 outlined primary punctures of third-degree density, their interspaces, 

 excepting those of the posterior aspect and of the anterio-dorsal 

 corner, with a very few, minute secondary punctures which are less 



