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by Gardner in September, 1926. This species has for some time been 

 known to the workers of the Japanese Beetle Project as Clausen No. 

 1851 and as the " Japanese red-legged Tiphia." 



37. TIPHIA PIGMENTATA. new species 



Fenvale. — Vertex with primary punctures of first-degree density 

 behind ocelli, laterally almost impimctate in spots. Front faintly 

 shagreened below; groove present; primary punctures medium in 

 size, of first-degree density only narrowly along inner orbits and 

 beside ocellar triangle, elsewhere of second-degree or third-degree 

 density; preocellar area broad, with several interspaces twice as broad 

 as an ocellus. Clypeal extension emarginate; the impunctate apex 

 limited by a definite row of punctures, its longitudinal extension 

 two-fifths the distance from apex of clypeus to base of antennae. 

 Flageilum of antenna fulvous beneath. Pronotum with transverse 

 carina with broad lacuna dorso-medially, and with primary punctures 

 of first-degree density in antero-medial patch and in a well-defined 

 transverse discal band, of third-degree density, and very sparse on 

 lateral disks; secondary punctures few and widely scattered; medial 

 width of punctate area medially considerably narrower than the 

 impunctate area. Side of pronotum with a somewhat interrupted 

 and variable groove across the center, above which there are scarcely 

 any primary punctures. Metanotum with vague median impres- 

 sion ; its rather sparse primary punctures nearly as large as the pri- 

 maries of the scutellum. Legs black, except the femora of the last 

 two pairs, which are bright red; major calcarium of the hind tibia 

 widest near the middle, where there is a very distinct bend; hind 

 basitarsus with a short, shallow groove and a row of three lanceolate 

 spines on the outside, of which one is at apex. Tegula black to 

 bright reddish, but not thin or transparent. Propodeal areaola 

 shaped like the cross section of a biconcave lens, two and one-fourth 

 times as long as wide; carinae bordered by grooves; median carina 

 extending to lowest eighth. Lower portion of sides of propodeum 

 faintly striate, densely and minutely setulo-punctate on posterior 

 half. Posterior aspect of propodeum with flattened linear carina 

 on lowest three-fifths or more. First tergite with its preapical band 

 of regularly spaced punctures one row wide at center, more or less 

 irregularly expanded at sides, where the anterior margin is some- 

 what abruptly impressed. First sternite with lateral grooves, which 

 may be interrupted anteriorly, on posterior half; front third shal- 

 lowly coriaceous to sparsely punctate. Medially, the impunctate 

 margins of the intermediate tergites about six times the width of the 

 largest adjacent primarj^ punctures. Pygidium densely rugoso- 

 pimctate on basal half; apex not wrinkled, excepting very faintly 



