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the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, and the Japanese Beetle Laboratory : Two to each 

 from Suigen, Chosen, June 5, 1924 (Sato), Clausen No. 1859. 



Two females and one male, Koriyama, Japan, June 14, 1920 

 (Clausen), varying towards agilis. were deposited at the United 

 States National Museum but were excluded from the type series. 

 The specimens from China and Japan differ very slightly from the 

 form from Chosen in having the preapical band less linear and less 

 deeply impressed across the medio-dorsum. The association of male 

 with female was made by Mr. Clausen, and is based on rearing work 

 done in Chosen. This species has been known to the men in Jap- 

 anese Beetle parasite work as Clausen No. 1859 and Gardner No. 8. 



32. TIPHIA AGILIS Smith 



Tiphia agilis Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1873, p. 184. 



This species was identified by Mr. Gahan after comparison of a 

 male in our collection from Suigen, Chosen, with the type male in 

 the British Museum. The female is identical with aseHcae in all 

 characters used in our description, except that the side of the prono- 

 lum has a shallow, narrow, interrupted groove across its center, and 

 that the length is slightl}'^ less, being 7.5 to 8.5 mm. 



The male is characterized as follows: Vertex with primary punc- 

 tures in a dorsal, medial patch, of first-degree density. Front faintly 

 shagreened; preocellar area irregularly beset with primary punc- 

 tures and with several interspaces as broad as the lowest ocellus; 

 secondary punctures not well differentiated, a few ascending medi- 

 ally lialf way to ocellus, but not nearly so high beside the eyes. An- 

 tennocular distance equal to wddth of antennal fossa. Clypeoanten- 

 al distance one and one-fourth times width of clypeal extension at 

 ajx^x; punctures of extension continuous to the margin, which is 

 slightly emarginate and not flattened. Flagellum broadly reddened 

 beneath. Pronotum with small, poorly outlined primary punctures, 

 of third-degree density outside the anterior medial patch ; second- 

 ary punctures not apparent. Side of pronotum broadly striate, with 

 irregular depression across the center interrupted by numerous 

 rugae. Mesepisternum with primary punctures shallow and of 

 sparse third-degree density; secondary punctures everywhere more 

 numerous than primaries, except in a narrow area on the median 

 ■surface between mesocoxa and tegula. Metanotum densely punctate, 

 with punctures considerably finer than the coarsest punctures of th( 

 scutellum. Tibia and apices of femora of the first two pairs of legs 

 red. Tegula reddish and semitransjiarent, except at base. Wings 

 hyaline, with radial cell slightlv exceedin<«: second cubital cell. 



