90 Z. BOUCEK 



I do not think, however, that this difference is significant enough to point to 

 different subspecies. 



Biology. Host not yet known. 



Distribution. South-east U.S.A. (Florida, Alabama), Mexico. 



Material examined. 



U.S.A.: Alabama, Gulf Shores, 23.iv.1968, 1 <$ (H. & M. Townes) (Townes); A., 

 Mobile, 19.X.1939, 1 $, 1 $ (Van Dyke) (CAS, San Francisco); Florida, Highlands, 

 Hammock County, St. Pk., Larkins, Lake Placid, Miami, Naples, iv., viii., 7 $, 4 $ 

 (various depositories). Mexico: Sonora, 16 mis N.E. of Ciudad Obregon, v. 1961, 

 1 $ (Howden 6- Martin); Sinaloa, Mazatlan, 6.viii.i964, 5 $ (Mason) (both ERI, 

 Ottawa); Nayarit, Ahuacatlan, vii. 1951, 1 <$ (P. D. Hurd) (CIS, Berkeley); 

 Veracruz, Minatitlan, viii.-ix. 1961, 1 $ (Dreisbach) (EM, East Lansing); Morelos, 

 Hujintlan, viii. 1956, 1 $ (Dreisbach) (BMNH). 



Leucospis enderleini Ashmead 

 (Text-figs 103, 104) 



Leucospis enderleini Ashmead, 1904 : 405, pi. 31, fig. 1, $. Holotype $, Brazil: Santarem 



(USNM). 

 Leucospis metallica Weld, 1922 : 13-14, $. Holotype $, Brazil: Sao Paulo (USNM). 



After a comparison of the types, Burks (1961 : 541) recognized that L. 

 metallica was the same species as L. enderleini. Dr Burks kindly sent me the 

 (only) paratype of L. metallica for examination, which enabled me to include the 

 species properly in the key and recognize further specimens, among them the 

 hitherto undescribed male. 



<§. 8-2 mm. Pale markings of body mostly whitish yellow. Face dull, finely rugulose- 

 striate, pubescence extremely short, white, not conspicuous. Propodeum in middle fully 

 twice as long as dorsellum, median carina very high in middle, in profile broadly tooth-like, 

 basally on each side accompanied by submedian carina converging to middle of median carina 

 and enclosing raised triangular area. Fore femur dorsally distinctly edged, tibia more rounded. 

 For hind leg see Text-fig. 105; hind femur basally with inner and outer carina, outer one 

 obliterated basad. Gaster hardly longer than head plus thorax combined, not strongly 

 narrowed basally, but first tergite separated from the rest by shallow transverse furrow. 

 Puncturation coarse on first tergite, becoming finer towards apex of gaster, fine and dense 

 particularly at hind margins of fourth and fifth tergites (broadest part of gaster) where covered 

 by denser pilosity. First tergite about o-8 times as long as broad, punctured down to hind 

 margin, basal fovea fairly deep and large, nearly semicircular, nearly reaching middle of tergite, 

 margined by stout carina; bottom of fovea anteriorly with two short diverging keels. Second 

 tergite exposed, nearly as long as the third which is completely fused with the following ones. 

 Sixth tergite dorsally longer than fifth, medially depressed and with obtuse median keel; 

 postero-lateral corners slightly projecting but not expanded into auricles. Epipygium 

 transversely depressed but depression traversed by median keel and limited laterally by 

 converging supracercal keels; apex rounded. Sternites anteriorly well visible in lateral view 

 for the epipleural part of carapace is rather narrow; they are convex, much more coarsely 

 punctured than tergites, coarseness decreasing caudad, as well as convexity of sternites: 



