AHT. 17 WASPS OF THE GENUS TIPHIA ALLEN AND JAYNES 99 



TIPHIA AURIPENNIS Bingham 



Tiphia auripennis Bingham, Fauna Brit. India. Hymenop., vol. 1, 1897, 

 p. 64. 



The material in the British Museum includes a female, the type of 

 auripennis, and a female, the type of curvinerva Cameron, which is 

 considered to be conspecific. Both are from Assam, India. Gahan 

 states that in the key sent to him auHpennis ran to our species 

 incon^picua, and it probably would do the same in the present key. 

 He stated, however, that it was not identical with inconspicua. 



TIPHIA ANNANDALEI Turner 



Tiphia annandalei Turnee, Ann. Ma^'. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, 1908, p. 123. 



Described from the female type in the British Museum, labeled 

 Siam; probably from Selangor, on the West Malay Peninsula. 

 Gahan runs this species to couplet 30 of our key. He says that it 

 resembles phyllophagae more or less, but has the apical half of the 

 pygidium very strongly shagreened and with a few wrinkles (not 

 striations as in totopunctata) . The clypeus is squarely truncate at 

 the apex, the truncate margin of the extension reaching a point out- 

 side the antennal fossa. The last character is quite different from 

 any possessed by the other species included in couplet 30, namely, ner- 

 vidirecta, popiUiavora, phyllophagae, and ovinigris. The species is 

 apparently different from any discussed in this paper. 



TIPHIA IMPLICATA Cameron 



Tiphia impUcata Cameron, Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Pliilos, 

 Soc, vol. 41, no. 4, 1896-97, p. 50. 



The type, a male from " Masuri," would very likely run to popU- 

 liavora in our key, as it did in the provisional key used by Mr. Gahan. 

 He found that it differed from the latter in having the front more 

 densely punctate and beset with longer and more numerous hairs. 



TIPHIA FUSCINERVIS Cameron 



Tiphia fuscinervis Cameron, Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. 

 Soc, vol. 41, no. 4, 189&-97, p. 48. 



Described from the female from " Mussouri." In the British Mu- 

 seum there are two males and one female, not labeled types, from 

 the " Kanga Valley." Gahan considers these to be the same as our 

 species capillata, as he found no differences except the following 

 colorational variations. The tibiae are not bright red, but have a 

 decided reddish cast. In the males, the first two pairs of tibiae are 

 red, but the hind pair is darker. Although our species capillata may 

 equal fuscinervis, we hesitate to state that it does without having 

 examined the type. 



