ART. 17 WASPS OF THE GENUS TIPHIA ALLEN AND JAYNES 83 



Tijfe and allotype.— Qvii. No. 41801, U.S.N.M. Type, female, and 

 allotype, male, Shiliong, India, Jap. Beetle Par. Exp. 433. 



Pdratypes. — Deposited in the U. S. National Museum : Thirty-one 

 females and 12 males, Shillong, India, Jap. Beetle Par. Exp. 433. 

 Retained in the collection of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, and de- 

 posited in the collections of the British Museum, the Illinois Nat- 

 ural History Survey, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences : Two females and 1 male of the same lot to each. 



Several females in a lot from Shillong, India, 1926 (Clausen), 

 have the areola somewhat more slender, being slightly over twice 

 as long as Avide ; otherwise they are like the type. 



The association of the sexes has been made through breeding. The 

 specimens labeled " Exp. 433 " were obtained at the Japanese Beetle 

 Laboratory from cocoons, which in turn were obtained from progeny 

 of field-collected females at Shillong. This species has been re- 

 ferred to in notes and papers of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory as 

 Clausen No. 2036. 



35. TIPHIA PULLIVORA, new species 2 



Female. — Vertex with primary punctures densest between ocelli, 

 back of ©cellar triangle, and between it and the eyes, where they are 

 mostly of second-degree density, very sparse on either side of median 

 patch. Front faintly shagreened on lower half, with impunctate 

 stripe scarcely perceptible ; primary punctures densest on lower half, 

 where they are evenly distributed between the eyes, mostly of first- 

 degree density, on upper front mostly of third-degree density without 

 pronounced impunctate spots; hairs on lower half directed strongly 

 outward. Clypeus with its lateral margin slightly convex; length 

 of impunctate margin of clypeal extension nearly equal to one-half 

 the clypeoantennae distance. Pronotum with its primary punctures 

 of uniform size and well differentiated from the secondaries, slightly 

 more numerous at center than on lateral disks; no transverse discal 

 band. Metanotum with vague medial impression, bipunctate, the 

 coarser punctures smaller than those of scutellum. Legs with major 

 calcarium of hind tibia tapering from base; hind basitarsus with 

 two modified spurs on outside, one of them at apex, groove mod- 

 erately deep, and half the length of joint. Wings faintly smoky. 

 Projjodeal areola keystone-shaped, sides slightly convergent, one 

 and one-half times as long as wide, carinae Avithout bordering 

 grooves; median carina on upper two-thirds or more. Lower por- 

 tion of sides of propodeum faintly striate, with posterior patch of 

 very minute hairs. Posterior aspect of propodeum without sculp- 

 turing save the usual lateral coriaceous area, and a poorly defined 



= See Tiphia No. 2049, King, Allen, and Halloek, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 20, p. 370, 1927. 



