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We have males with the same peculiar, elongate tegula, that were 

 taken with the females of longitegulata and are without doubt cor- 

 rectly associated. T. 'punctifrons is almost certainly a distinct spe- 

 cies, differing in having the mesepisternum conspicuously bipunctate 

 over all its surface, with the primary punctures distinctly larger than 

 the secondaries, and in having the first two pairs of legs to the coxae, 

 and the hind tibiae and femora red. 



TIPHIA OSWINI Turner 



TlpMa oswini Turner, Spolia Zeylaniea, vol. 7, pt. 27, 1911, p. 152. 



Gahan examined the type, a female from Ceylon, in the British 

 Musejim. He found that in our key it runs best to longitegulata, 

 but is much larger, and is not of that species. The tegula is black, 

 hardly twice as long as wide, though distinctly longer than broad, 

 extending for fully one-third its length beyond the scutellar groove. 

 The first tergite is not as coarsely or strongly punctate; the second 

 tergite is nearly impunctate, except for a transverse, preapical row of 

 punctures and a few very scattered, suberased punctures on the disk. 

 The depressed area of the scutum is much less densely punctate. The 

 median carina of the propodeum is subobsolete, except the basal 

 third; the areola is well defined. The flagellar joints are all some- 

 what longer than wide; the apical joint is about four times as long 

 as wide. 



TIPHIA FLAVIPENNIS Smith 



Tiphia flavipennis Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 2, 

 1858, p. 91. 



Originally described from the female from Borneo. There are 

 three females and two males under this name in the British Museum. 

 The following information regarding them is from Gahan: One 

 female and one male from the Smith collection, taken in Borneo, are 

 identical with other specimens under the name lyrata in the British 

 Museum. Waterston says that these are cotypes. One female, also 

 from Borneo, and determined by Cameron as flavipennis^ agrees with 

 our longitegulata^ except that it is a little larger and that the tegula 

 is lighter red. One of the males and one of the females belong to 

 still another species. 



TIPHIA INCISA Cameron 



Tiphia inoisa Cameron, Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc., 

 vol. 41, no. 4, 1896-97, p. 49. 



Described from the male from " Mussouri." Gahan examined a 

 series under this name in the British Museum, which he noted could 

 be separated into two and possibly three species on the basis of the 

 "haracters used in our keys. 



