REVISION OF LEUCOSPIDAE 7 



cerci. Some of the tergites in the female are reduced and more or less hidden 

 (but shown in Text-figs 4 and 252), as well as the basal sternites, of which only the 

 last, called the hypopygium is always conspicuous. In the male the tergites and 

 sternites can be better observed, but tergites 3-6 are more or less fused into a 

 carapace; its hind corners often protrude as teeth or auricles. The sternites 

 are seven in number, i.e. the last is always counted as the seventh. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



My work has been facilitated by my recent new position with the Commonwealth 

 Institute of Entomology, close to the collections and the library of the Department 

 of Entomology of the British Museum (Natural History), the Keeper and staff 

 of which I wish to thank for all the facilities offered. Also many other colleagues 

 from many institutions all over the world (see also the list of depositories below) 

 very kindly assisted me in submitting the types and other material for study, 

 or in various other ways, in particular the following: Dr D. P. Annecke (Pretoria), 

 Dr F. Bachmaier (Munich), Dr B. D. Burks (Washington), Dr E. McC. Callan 

 (Canberra), Mr E. C. Dahms (Brisbane), Prof. H. V. Daly (Berkeley), Prof. H. E. 

 Evans (Cambridge, U.S.A.), Mr M. J. Gijswijt (s'Graveland, Netherlands), Dr 

 M. \V. R. de V. Graham (Oxford), Dr E. Konigsmann (Berlin), Prof. M. S. Mani 

 (Agra), Dr L. Masner (Ottawa), Prof. 0. W. Richards (London), Dr E. F. Riek 

 (Canberra), Rev. A. Watsham (Salisbury, Rhodesia; also for his kind linguistic help) 

 and Prof. J. T. Wiebes (Leiden). 



ABBREVIATIONS OF DEPOSITORIES 



AM, Grahamstown Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa (C. F. 



Jacot-Guillarmod) 

 AM, Sydney Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia (G. A. Holloway) 



ANS, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 



(Dr D. C. Rentz) 

 BBM, Honolulu Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. (Dr J. L. Gressitt) 



BMNH British Museum (Natural History), London 



CAS, San Francisco California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 



(P. H. Arnaud) 

 CIS, Berkeley California Insect Survey, University of California, Berkeley, California, 



U.S.A. 

 CM, Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (G. E. Wallace) 



CSIRO, Canberra Division of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 



Research Organisation, Canberra City, A.C.T., Australia 

 CU, Ithaca Cornell University, Department of Entomology, Ithaca, New York, 



U.S.A. (Dr L. L. Pechuman) 

 DEI, Eberswalde Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, now Abteilung Taxonomie der 



Insekten, Institut fur Pflanzenschutzforschung, Eberswalde, East 



Germany (Dr J. Oehlke) 

 DE, Davis Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, California, 



U.S.A. (Prof. R. M. Bohart, E. E. Grissell) 

 DE, Riverside Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, 



California, U.S.A. (S. Frommer) 



