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TIPHIA KUFIPES Smith 



Tiphia rufipes Smith, Cat. Hymenop. Insects in Coll. Brit. Mus., pt. 3, 1855f 

 p. 83. 



The type, a female labeled " N. India," runs in our key to capillatUy 

 but differs in having all the femora as well as the tibiae bright red. 

 Gahan notes also that the pygidium is nearly devoid of shagreening, 

 while that of capUlata is rather strongly shagreened. 



TIPHIA ORDINARIA Smith 



Tiphia ordinaria Smith, Trans. Eut. Soc. London, 1873, p. 184 



This species comes close to Mcarinata, and may possibly be a va- 

 riety, though it is probably another species. The type is a male from 

 Hyogo, Japan, Avliile the type of Mcaririata is a female, also from 

 Japan. It differs from our males of hicai^iiata in not having dark- 

 colored hairs on the apical tergites, in having distinct lateral grooves 

 on the lower half of the first sternite, and in having a radial cell 

 exceeding the second cubital cell. An occasional specimen of our lot 

 of hicarinafa has lateral grooves on the lower third of the first ster- 

 nite, but most have none. In hicarinata, the radial cell is actually 

 only equal to the lower corner of the second cubital cell, although the 

 oblique trend of the intercubital cell gives the radial cell the appear- 

 ance of exceeding the second cubital. 



TIPHIA SPINOSA Cameron 



Tiphia spinosa Cameron, Entomologist, vol. 35, 1902, p. 237 



Described from a male from Khasia (Hills), India. Mr. Gahan 

 notes that it lacks denticles and orifices on the fifth sternite, which 

 would throw it to couplet 2 in our key, with the alternatives of 

 hica/rinata and cilicincta. The other characters mentioned by him, 

 which serve to separate it from these species, are as follows. The first 

 sternite, exclusive of its lateral folds, is nearly or quite twice as long 

 as its apical width, and is entirely and coarsely rilgoso-punctate, the 

 basal half having a strong medial carina which, at its anterior end, 

 is produced downward into a short, hooklike tooth. In hicarinata, 

 the first sternite is not nearly twice as long as wide, it is finely punc- 

 tate on the apical half, the basal carina is vestigial, and the tooth de- 

 scribed for spinosa is lacking. In cilicincta there is a median keel, 

 but the other differences hold the same as for hicarinafa. 



TIPHIA TIBETANA Turner 



Tiphia tihetana Turner, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, 1908, p. 121. 



In the British Museum there are single male and females speci- 

 mens, both of which are labeled type. There are also three females 

 and three males labeled cotypes and an additional eight females and 

 one male, Cyangtse, 13,000 feet, which are presumably from the 

 Yangtze River valley in Tibet. 



