592 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
redescribed it from the Philippine Islands, referring it to the 
lissonotine genus Atropha Kriechbaumer and calling it Atropha 
clypearia. Atropha is unknown to me except by description, 
but it is very closely allied to Leptobatopsis and possibly should 
include the latter genus as a synonym. 
In 1913 * and again in 1915 Morley referred several Indian 
species to Syzeuctus Foerster. One of these is Cryptus indicus 
Cameron, with which Morley synonymized Mesoleptus annulipes 
Cameron and Tanera annulipes Cameron. With Cameron’s 
three descriptions Leptobatopsis australiensis agrees very closely, 
except with the sculpture of the thorax and the maculation of 
the mesoscutum in Tanera annulipes. Morley’s synonymizing 
of the latter species with C. indicus, however, indicates that 
these differences do not exist, and I would certainly synonymize 
L. australiensis with C. indicus Cameron were it not for the 
fact that Morley states that the spiracle of the first tergite is 
slightly before the middle, while in L. australiensis it is distinctly 
though slightly behind the middle. Moreover, the first tergite 
is distinctly petiolate, which is not true of any of the species of 
Syzeuctus known to me. It may be that species intermediate 
in this character occur in the Indian fauna, but for the present 
it seems wise to retain Ashmead’s name. The petiolate abdomen 
gives this species an appearance strongly resembling the Cam- 
poplegini, to which tribe I believe the Lissonotini are much more 
closely related than to the Ichneumonini (Pimplini). 
Leptobatopsis australiensis Ashmead. 
Leptobatopsis australiensis ASHMEAD, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 23 (1900) 
47; Proc, Linn, Soc. N. S. Wales, pt. 3 (1900) 349. 
Atropha clypearia ASHMEAD, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 28 (1904) 143. 
Additional specimens from Singapore of this widely distributed 
species indicate that it probably occurs throughout the Oriental 
and Australian Regions. The principal variation aside from 
size is in the presence or absence of certain of the white spots 
on the head and thorax. The spots on the sides of the face, 
the one in the malar space, and those on the humeral angle of 
the pronotum and tegula are sometimes wanting, while the ex- 
tent of white on the abdomen is variable, that on the apical 
tergites being sometimes absent. 
Unless Syzeuctus indicus (Cameron) is the male of this species, 
that sex has not been described. It differs from the female 
“Fauna Brit. India, Hym. 3 (1913) 234-240. 
* Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII 16 (1915) 337. 
