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this species and labeled Burma; whether the determination is correct 

 is not known. The following notes by Gahan indicate that it is 

 quite different from other species described in this paper. In our 

 key it runs to couplet 21, but is quite different from either of the 

 species included there. Only the hind femur is red. The pygidium 

 is sculptured like that of totofunctata., although it is somewhat 

 smoother at the apex, and is thickly studded on the punctate portion 

 with dark colored, nearly black, long, stiff setae which are distinctly 

 thicker and stiffer than those usually found on this tergite. The 

 fourth and fifth tergites each have a double row of similar bristles 

 at the apex. The forewings are unusually dark: nearly black. The 

 first tergite has a transverse row of coarse, shallow punctures at the 

 angle between the anterior and dorsal asjDCcts, these punctures pro- 

 ducing a distinct, though slightly irregular fold at the anterior 

 margin of the tergite. 



TIPHIA CLYPEALIS Cameron 



Tiphia clypealis Cameeon, Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc.^ 

 vol. 41, no. 4, 1896-97, p. 47. 



The type male, from Masuri, would undoubtedly run out to the 

 rufo7/iandibulata-notopolUa complex, as it did in the provisional key 

 used by Gahan. He notes that in this species the clypeus is differ- 

 ently colored and the body much more hairy. 



TIPHIA CARBONARIA Smith 



Tiphia carbonaria Smith, .Tourn. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 5, 1861, 

 p. 78. 



There is a female from Malaya, not marked type, in the British 

 Museum. It would run to couplet 6 in our key, but its course from 

 that point is uncertain. Gahan found that it differed from inifo- 

 mandibulata in being distinctly larger, in lacking crenulae along the 

 dorsal apex of the propodeum, in having the median carina of the 

 propodeal areola ending abruptly just before the apex, in the more 

 definite limitation between the upper rugose portion and the lower 

 shagreened portion of the sides of the propodeum, and in the absence 

 of linear marginal grooves on the tegula. The continuity of the 

 lateral and of the anterior grooves of the scutum would separate it 

 at once from the other species under couplet 6, including lyrata; 

 hrev^carinata, steimocarinata^ and noto'polita. 



TIPHIA STIGMA Smith 



Tiphia Stigma Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 2, 1858, p. 91. 



Three females from Borneo, none marked type, are in the British 

 Museum. Gahan notes that quite possibly these represent different 

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