ART. 17 WASPS OF THE GENUS TIPHIA ALLEN AND JAYNES 101 



The type female of this species runs to asericae in our key, but the 

 tegula differs in being black, and there is no preapical band sunk 

 in a deep, narrow groove. It is somewhat difficult to say where the 

 male type would run to in the present key. It has a tooth on the fifth 

 sternite, the mesepisternum is not conspicuously bipunctate at the 

 center of the disk, and the apex of the radial cell does not exceed 

 the second cubital cell. It does not belong to any species in the 

 koreana group, since it lacks the deep, overlapped groove just before 

 the apex of the first abdominal segment. It also lacks the coarse, 

 apical, ciliate row of bristles on the intermediate tergites, which are 

 characteristic of the hicaHnata group. This combination of charac- 

 ters would eliminate all species in our key except pullivora^ agilis, 

 and asericae. Gahan writes that the species is not agilis, but just 

 hoAv it differs from agilis and the other two species is not laiown. 



TIPHIA CONSUETA Smith 



Tiphia consueta Smith, Descriiitions of New Species of Hymenoptera, 1879, 

 p. 184. 



The type, a female from Ceylon, was examined in the British 

 Museum by Gahan. He says that it runs in our key to matura, but 

 can be separated from that species. The wings are not nearly as 

 dark. The front and vertex appear much less strongly shagreened 

 on the interspaces. The pronotum is less densely punctate ante- 

 riorly, and the punctures are somewhat coarser. 



TIPHIA KHASIANA Cameron 



Tiphia Tchasiana Cameron, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 10, 1902, p. 86. 



Described from the female ; type locality not given. In the British 

 Museum there is a female from Assam determined by Cameron, but 

 not labeled type, and another female from Assam, which Gahan 

 thinks may not be of the same species. This species runs to couplet 

 21 in our key, and Gahan writes that it is very similar to both forms 

 included there. He finds that the pygidium is exactly like that of 

 ^igmentata, and that it is not wrinkled apically as in hiseculata, that 

 the punctation of front, pronotum, and abdomen is like that of hisecu- 

 lata, but is more pronounced than that of pignientata, and that the 

 hind tibiae are darker than those of hiseculata. 



TIPHIA PUNCTIFRONS Cameron 



Tiphia punctifrons Cameron, Entomologist, vol. 42, 1909, p. 175. 



The type is a male from Borneo. Gahan notes that it has an 

 elongate tegula exactly like that of longitegulata, of which the type is 

 a female, and of which he had only females before him at the time his 

 comparison was made. This character sharply separates the species 

 from all the others discussed in the foregoing part of this paper. 



