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34. TIPHIA MATXJRA, new species » 



Female. — Vertex strongly shagreened; punctures of first-degree 

 density occurring in patches behind ocellar triangle and near eye 

 orbits, the broad, irregular intervening space impunctate except for 

 several sparse secondary punctures; minute punctures extending for- 

 ward from occipital area toward ocellar triangle in a narrow, inter- 

 rupted band. Front shagreened, with faint carina, well-developed 

 median groove, and impunctate stripe; primary punctures very large 

 and clearly outlined, everywhere of first degree density except on 

 medial stripe, but densest below, where interspaces average much less 

 than the average diameter of primary punctures. Clypeal extension 

 with its impunctate margin of uniform longitudinal extension, it 

 being two-fifths as great as the clypeoantennal distance. Pronotum 

 with its transverse carina lacking over a considerable part of the 

 dorsum ; primary punctures of uniform first-degree density over most 

 of the area, though slightly sparser on lateral disks; no trace of 

 transverse discal band ; secondary punctures sparsely distributed ; the 

 impunctate area medially, slightly narrower than the punctate. 

 Sides of pronotum with a strong, straight central groove, uninter- 

 rupted except for minute rugulae jutting from the upper margin. 

 Metanotum coarsely bipunctate, its primary punctures more than 

 half as large as the largest of the scutellum. Metasternum Avith its 

 posterior lateral angles single, in slender points which curve back- 

 ward at the tips; no depression along the suture; disks sparsely 

 punctate. Major calcarium of hind tibia widest at the bend near the 

 middle ; hind basitarsus with a longitudinal groove, and with a group 

 of three or four stout, black, lanceolate spines on the outside, of which 

 one is at the apex. Tegula shagreened. Wings very smoky ; second 

 intercubital vein straight, except for a rounded angle at the junction 

 with the radius; stigma small, less than twice as long as broad, 

 joined by radius near its middle. Propodeum with areola subrectan- 

 gular, twice as long as wide, its carinae of uniform height and width, 

 and bordered by vague grooves ; median carina complete or nearly so. 

 Lower portion of sides of propodeum mostly covered by a patch of 

 dense, minute setigerous punctures. Posterior aspect uniformly 

 setulose and feebly coriaceous; median carina flat and low, ranging 

 from present on the lower half only to complete; transverse carina 

 behind the areola densely minute punctate. First tergite with a well- 

 defined preapical band widening toward the sides from a single row 

 at the center, its punctures rather uniform in size and tending to 

 coalesce with each other laterally, the band separated from apex of 

 the tergite by a wide, polished margin. First sternite without sculp- 



1 See Ttphia No. 2036, King, Allen, and Hallock, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 20, p. 371. 1927. 

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