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and poorly outlined; impunctate apices at middle about one-fourth 

 the punctate width. Lateral denticle of sixth sternite very small and 

 appressed. Length, 5.5 mm. 



Feniiale. — Not known. 



Distribution. — Fukien, China. 



H olotype.— C2it. No. 41809, U.S.N.M. Male, Kuliang, China, Au- 

 gust 4, 1926 (Jen). 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON TYPES OF ORIENTAL TIPHIA IN THE 



BRITISH MUSEUM 



During the winter of 1927-28, while the work on this paper was 

 in progress, Mr. Gahan, who at the time was in Europe examining 

 types of Hymenoptera, was asked to compare examples of our ma- 

 terial with the extensive collection of types in the British Museum. 

 For this purpose, determined specimens of nearly all the species 

 represented in the material being studied were sent to him, together 

 with our keys to species. The junior author also had studied these 

 types during the preceding winter, but he had none of our material 

 with him for comparison. Though it should be pointed out that 

 our ideas as to species have been clarified considerably since these 

 examinations were made, and the keys upon which Gahan based his 

 determinations have been considerably altered, the following notes 

 are valuable as an aid in associating species previously described 

 with species described in this paper. 



TIPHIA PUNCTATA Smith 



Tiphia punctata Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1873, p. 183. 



Described from a male from Hyogo, Japan. The notes by Gahan 

 make it clear that this species belongs to the koreann group, in which 

 the first tergite has the very deep preapical groove broadly over- 

 lapped on the dorsum. It could not be antigenata or communis^ 

 since both have conspicuous, short, erect, brown pile on the tergites, 

 while jmnctata Smith is entirely devoid of such pile, both on the 

 tergites and on the sternites. T. ovidorscdis could probably be elimi- 

 nated as a possibility, although the erect, brown pile in this species 

 is much sparser, and, in some specimens, might easily be overlooked. 

 No other males are known in this interesting group, although sev- 

 eral of the species are known in the female sex, including two species 

 from Japan, tegitiplaffm, and cmtiminalis. 



TIPHIA ROBUSTA Cameron 



Tiphia roiusta Cameron, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 13, 1904, p. 283. 



Originally described from a female, from northern India. In the 

 British Museum there is one female, not the type, determined as of 



