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femur is 1-80-1-84 times as long as broad (teeth not included), i.e. relatively slender, 

 for the figure varies in the species between 1-72 and 1-84. Still more difficult 

 to separate are the males, in which sometimes the most reliable character seems 

 to be careful measurements of the head, although the figures are very close, i.e. 

 in egaia the length of the eye is 1-00-1-03 times the breadth of the frontovertex, 

 but in another case only 0-98. The same figures for the males of L. coxalis are 

 0-94-0-95. In L. egaia the coarse piliferous punctures on frons mix with the 

 finer puncturation more downwards, and do not become gradually finer as in L. 

 coxalis. 



Biology. Host unknown. 



Distribution. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina. 



Material examined. 

 Type data given in synonymy. 



Mexico: Vera Cruz, Minatitlan, 21.ix.1961, 1 $ (R. & K. Dreisbach) (EM, 

 East Lansing). Guatemala: El Salto, Excuintla, 28. vi. 1934, 1$ (F. X. Williams) 

 (BMNH). Costa Rica: Pacuare, 1 ?, 1 6* (USNM). Panama: Trinidad Rio, 

 25.iii.1912, 1 <$ (USNM). Colombia: Dept. Meta, Restrepo, 500 m, viii. 1936, 

 4$ (/. Beqttaert) (MCZ, Cambridge & BMNH). Ecuador: Bucay, 300 m, 7.X.1922, 

 1$ (F. X. Williams) (BBM, Honolulu); 15 mis S. of Santa Rosa, El Oro, 23.1.1955, 

 1$ (Schlinger & Ross) (CAS, San Francisco). Peru: Monson Valley, Tingo 

 Maria, x-xii. 1954, 4 $• 2 q* (Schlinger & Ross) (CAS, San Francisco). Venezuela: 

 San Esteban nr Puerto Cabello, i. 1940, 1$ (Anduze) (Townes). Trinidad: 

 Maracas Valley, vii. 1945, 1$ (Callan) (USNM). Guyana: Mazaruni, 23.viii.1937, 

 1 $ (Richards & Smart) (BMNH); New Amsterdam, vii. 1923, I $ (F. X. Williams) 

 (BBM, Honolulu). French Guiana: Cayenne, i, hi. 1917, 2 $ (CM, Pittsburgh). 

 Brazil: Para, Belem, vi. 1924, 1$ (F. X. Williams ) (BBM, Honolulu); Guaruja, 

 Ilha Santo Amaro, iv. 1912, 1 $ (Bryant) (BMNH) ; Sao Paulo, 1 <J (TM, Budapest) ; 

 Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, ii-vi., xi., 1935-1955, 9$, 2 <$, (Plaumann) 

 (BMNH; MCZ, Cambridge; Townes); Blumenau, 1$ (TM, Budapest). Bolivia: 

 Santa Cruz, Buena Vista, vii. 1972, 3^ (Porter) (IML, Tucuman; BMNH). 

 Argentina: Corrientes, Santa Ana, 2.V.1971, 1 $ (Porter & Stange) (IML, 

 Tucuman). Without data, 1$, possibly syntype of tapayosa, labelled 'Tapayosa 

 Wlk.' (UM, Oxford). 



Leucospis pulchriceps Cameron 



Leucospis pulchriceps Cameron, 1909 : 419-420, 9- LECTOTYPE $ (here designated), 



Argentina: Mendoza (BMNH) [examined]. 

 Leucospis formosifacies Strand, 1911a : 95-97, $ $. LECTOTYPE § (here designated), 



Argentina: Mendoza (MNHU, Berlin) [examined]. Syn. n. 

 Leucospis elegans Weld, 1922 : 17-18, $. Holotype <j>, Argentina : La Rioja (CU, Ithaca) 



[examined]. [Junior primary homonym of Leucospis elegans Klug, 1834.] Syn. n. 

 Leucospis weldae Burks, 1961 : 541. Proposed as a replacement name for L. elegans Weld, 



1922. Syn. n. 



