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punctured, sparsely covered with short,' black hair; the 

 median segment has the hair much longer, especially at 

 the base ; the base is rounded, the apex oblique and has 

 down its centre a keel ; reticulated, the reticulations larger 

 at the base ; at the apex of the scutellar region is a trans- 

 verse keel ; and, in the centre of the median segment at 

 the top, is a curved scale-like projection. At the apex of 

 the mesothorax and at the base of the median segment is 

 a small, projecting, roundish tubercle. The propleurae 

 rather coarsely punctured ; the mesopleurae not much 

 excavated ; smooth and shining, except over the middle 

 cox3e, where it is punctured; in the middle on the lower 

 half is a black, curved, oblique furrow; the metapleurae 

 coarsely punctured behind the oblique furrow. Legs 

 black, thickly covered with pale hair ; the tibial spines are 

 few and longish; the spurs pale. Abdomen not much 

 longer than the head and thorax united ; a mark of white 

 pubescence on the base of the second segment, which is, 

 at the apex, thickly covered with white hair, forming a 

 broad belt; the penultimate segment covered with long, 

 white hair; the pygidial area smooth, shining, impunctate; 

 the second segment is strongly punctured. Petiole beneath 

 more or less piceous, the apical parts bluntly keeled ; the 

 apex itself obliquely pointed, the second ventral segment 

 coarsely punctured, sparsely covered with short, white 

 hair ; a reddish transverse band before the apex ; the 

 third and following segments covered with long, white 

 hair ; the apices of the other segments (including the last) 

 strongly punctured. 



SCOLIIDtE. 



TlPHIA FULVOHIRTA, Sp. 7t0V. 



Long. 8 mm. ^ . 



Hab. Poona ( Wrong] itori). 



In Bingham's table (/.r.,p. 57) this species comes into the 



