56 Z. BOUCEK 



of ocelli; POL about i-i times OOL; ocellar triangle about 3:1. Scrobes touching median 

 ocellus, carinately margined except at rounded frontal protuberances where carina becomes 

 vague. Face and frons dull, densely rugulose-punctured, vertex more coarsely so, except 

 narrowly laterad of each ocellus; pubescence extremely short, pale; interantennal area dis- 

 tinctly elevated in median line. In facial view head 1-25 times as broad as high (holotype 

 73 : 58). Relative measurements: frontovertex above weak emargination of eyes 44, lower 

 face 42, its height 30, scrobes width 22, eye 41 : 23, malar space 12, width of mouth 32. Scapus 

 stout, about 2-2 times as long as broad; flagellum plus pedicellus about 1*15 times as long as 

 breadth of head, moderately clavate, apically i-6 times as broad as pedicellus; first flagellar 

 segment about 1-5, second 1-4, sixth 1-08, eighth 0-85 times as long as broad. 



Puncturation on thorax rather fine and very dense, only on scutellum coarser and with some 

 interspaces but these not completely smooth; pubescence extremely short. Pronotal hind 

 margin finely carinate, premarginal carina thin, distinct in median two-fourths; collar other- 

 wise convex, lateral margins straight, hardly converging, corners rounded; lateral panel not 

 more hairy than collar, puncturation slightly obliterated in the rather shallow depression; 

 lower corner wide-angular, rounded. Mesoscutum posteriorly flattened but not depressed, 

 vestiges of parapsidal furrows very short. Scutellum nearly 1-4 times as broad as long, an- 

 teriorly slightly convex, along hind margin narrowly depressed, shallowly groove-like, margin 

 itself microscopically strigulose, about as broad as punctures; axilla rather flat, sloping. Dor- 

 sellum raised into two tubercles, posteriorly not distinctly carinate, surface dull, very irregularly 

 punctured-rugulose; also sides of metanotum irregularly punctured and partly hairy. Propo- 

 deum medially hardly half as long as scutellum, median carina weak; median area delimited 

 by straight plicae, rather regularly punctured, finely hairy, hairs directed forward; lateral 

 areas longer, hairs directed sideways. Femoral depression of mesopleurum moderate; inter- 

 spaces between punctures on upper episternum with traces of fine irregular puncturation, 

 broader interspaces on epimerum smooth. Narrowed part of claw of mid tarsi with 3-4 addi- 

 tional teeth. Hind coxa fully i-i times as long as high, dorsal edge coarsely punctured and 

 shortly hairy, anteriorly rounded but thin posteriorly where forming an obtuse lobe; depression 

 with smooth streak expanding caudad, sharply contrasting with dull densely and finely punctu- 

 red lower half of depression, bearing decumbent hairs arranged as in L. santarema, anteriorly 

 below dorsal edge punctures partly obliterated. Hind femur (Text-fig. 54) very stout, very 

 densely punctured, broad basal tooth followed by 0-12 much slenderer and mostly shorter 

 teeth. Apex of hind tibia produced in spine, actual outer spur rudimentary. 



Gaster (Text-fig. 55) hardly longer than head plus thorax, about twice as long as broad. 

 Pubescence rather short, not forming fasciae. First tergite about 0-7 as broad as the sixth, 

 about as long as broad; its base shortly impunctate, puncturation on disc anteriorly as coarse 

 as on scutellum, posteriorly denser and finer, on sides as fine as on next visible segment; de- 

 pressed median groove percurrent, shallow. Fourth tergite more than one-third as long as 

 the first, its hind margin nearly straight, medially at the shallow median groove with punctures 

 in about 15 transverse rows. Fifth tergite nearly regularly convex, dorsally with deep ovi- 

 positorial groove which is narrowed anteriorly. Ovipositor sheaths extending over two-thirds 

 to three-quarters of fifth tergite. 



^. 7-2-n-o mm. In colour similar to 9 but gaster with transverse yellow band in middle 

 followed by a similar black and another yellow band, then second black band connected with 

 longitudinal stripe nearly reaching apex of sixth tergite, this tergite also with sublateral black 

 streaks and black around spiracle; apical sternites and epipygium yellow, latter with black 

 spot above. Flagellum plus pedicellus nearly 1 -3 times as long as breadth of head in bigger 

 specimens. Gaster longer than head plus thorax, broadly fusiform, densely punctured. First 

 tergite 0-7 as broad as gaster, slightly transverse, hind margin slightly emarginate, dorsum 

 convex, basal fovea narrow and short. Second exposed tergite strongly transverse, much 

 shorter than the following which is fused with the others, segmentation suggested by marginal 

 yellow bands, only sixth tergite also sculpturally. Epipleurae of tergites 2 and 3 unusually 

 high. Hind margin of sixth tergite not raised, without lateral auricles. Epipygium without 

 keels, bisegmented, anterior two-thirds rather coarsely punctured, convex, apical third cres- 



