188 SCOLIID^. 



13. Tiphia intricata. 



Female. Length 5J-7 lines. — Black. The head, pro- and mesothorax 

 with strong confluent punctures ; the metathorax smooth and shining, 

 and with three longitudinal carinse, the lateral ones approximating 

 to the verge of the truncation ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures 

 brownish black, the tegulse smooth and shining ; the legs with 

 glittering white pubescence. Abdomen shining, with scattered, 

 shallow, rather fine punctures; the apical segment with strong 

 confluent punctures. 



Male. Length 4^-5 lines. — Resembles the female in having con- 

 fluent punctures on the head and thorax ; the head, thorax, and 

 legs are much more pubescent. 



Hab. South Mexico, the eastern slope of the mountains, and 

 Oajaca. 



DIMORPHOPTERA, Smith. 



1. Dimorphoptera cognata. 



Female. Length 5 lines.- 1 — Black and shining ; punctured, sparingly 

 pubescent, and having the mandibles and legs ferruginous. The 

 clypeus shining, smooth, with the sides punctured; the face 

 closely punctured, the vertex sparingly so. The prothorax, the 

 disk of the mesothorax, and the metathorax finely punctured, the 

 two former with distant strong punctures; wings fusco-hy aline, 

 the nervures and stigma black ; a little white pubescence at the 

 sides of the metathorax ; the coxae and trochanters black. Abdomen 

 very finely and closely punctured, and with a downy pile at the 

 base of the segments laterally ; beneath, the second segment with 

 a few scattered punctures, the rest closely and finely punctured, 

 their margins fringed with white pubescence. 



Hab. Swan River. 



Has a general resemblance to Tiphia femorata, but the basal seg- 

 ment is not constricted. 



2. Dimorphoptera laevifrons. 



Female. Length 3| lines.- — Black and shining. The head impunc- 

 tate ; the antennae fulvous beneath ; the mandibles ferruginous. 

 The prothorax smooth, except in front, where it is finely punctured ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures and stigma black ; the legs ob- 

 scurely rufo-piceous, the apical joints of the tarsi palest. Abdomen 

 impunctate. 



Hab. South Australia. 



