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ment of the abdomen very smooth and shining, sparsely 

 punctured in the middle ; the third and following segments 

 punctured, thickly covered with long pale fulvous hairs, 

 which are more silvery towards the apex. 



Tiphia incisa, sp. 110V. 



Nigra, longe argenteo-pilosa ; apice clypei incisa ; alis 

 hyalinis, nervis fnscis. 6. Long. 9 — 10 mm. 

 Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black, thickly covered with cinereous pubescence ; 

 rather strongly punctured ; the clypeus closely punctured; 

 the apex smooth, roundly incised. Antennae thick, the 

 scape with a few large punctures and with longish white 

 hairs ; the flagellum closely covered with a pale micro- 

 scopic down. Pronotum closely punctured, the extreme 

 apex only impunctate; the mesonotum strongly punctured 

 but not closely ; the scutellum more closely punctured all 

 over, this being also the case with the post scutellum ; 

 the median segment short, finely rugose, opaque, the base 

 sparsely, the apex much more densely covered with long 

 white hairs; at the base are two straight keels, with an 

 indistinct one in the centre, the two forming an area 

 nearly as broad as long; the apex has an oblique slope 

 and has an indistinct keel down the centre. Propleurae 

 aciculated, obscurely striated at the bottom ; mesopleurae 

 punctured ; the metapleurae with about eight semi-oblique 

 keels at the top. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black ; the radial cellule closed at the apex. Legs 

 entirely black except the calcaria, which are pale fulvous ; 

 the tarsi with a fulvous pubescence beneath. Abdomen 

 covered with longish white hairs ; the basal segment with 

 widely separated punctures all over, its apex depressed ; 

 the apical more closely and strongly punctured than the 

 middle segments. 



