120 z. boucek 



Mozambique: Nyaka, ii. 1924, 1 £ (R. F. Lawrence) (SAM, Cape Town); Caia, 

 nr Feira, Zambesi River, before 1912, 3 $, 1 $ (H. Swale) (BMNH); Rikatla, 

 Delagoa, 1 $ (Junod) (BMNH); Delagoa Bay, 20.iv.1893, 'type of carinifera\ 1 $ 

 {Brawns) (TM, Pretoria). Rhodesia: no locality, 7.1.1914, 1 $ (H. Swale) (BMNH); 

 Insuza River, xii. 1939, 1 $; Premier Mine, xii. 1941, 1 6*i Penkridge, ix. 1927, 1 $ 

 (Stevenson) (all NM, Bulawayo); Lonely Mine, iv. 1914, 2 $ (H. Swale) (BMNH); 

 Bulawayo, iii.-iv. 1923-1924, 4 $, 1 <$ (Stevenson) (TM, Pretoria; NM, Bulawayo; 

 BMNH). South West Africa: Kaoko Otavi, iii.-v. 1926, 2 <j>, 1 <$ (SAM, Cape 

 Town); Namutoni, 1914, 1 $ (/. Breyer) (TM, Pretoria); Okahandja, ii. 1928, 1 $ 

 (R. E. Turner); Aus, i. 1930, 1 $ (Turner) (both BMNH). South Africa: 

 Transvaal, Ohrigstad, i. 1963, 1 $ (Capener) (NCI, Pretoria); Barberton, i. 1898, 

 1 $ (SAM, Cape Town); Komatipoort, vi. 1969, 1 $ (Starke) (NCI, Pretoria); 

 Pretoria, x. 1947, 1 $ (J acot-Guillarmod) (BMNH); Zululand, Mfongosi River, 

 i-1912, 1 $ (W. E. Jones) (SAM, Cape Town); Natal, Weenen, ii. 1926, 2 $ 

 (Thomasset) (BMNH); 12 mis N. of Greystown, ii. 1967, I $ (Michener) (SM, 

 Lawrence); Cape Province, Willowmore, ii.-iii. 1909, 1911, 1 $, 1 $ (Brauns) (TM, 

 Pretoria); Leipoldtville, Eland's Bay, xi. 1948, 1 $ (SAM, Cape Town); Bushmanland 

 between Springbok and Pella, x. 1939, 2 <$ (Stoff) (SAM, Cape Town; BMNH). 



Leucospis varicollis Cameron 

 (Text-figs 138, 139) 



Leucospis varicollis Cameron, 1909 : 421-422, <$. LECTOTYPE <J (here designated), 

 'Argentina' [South Africa] (BMNH) [examined]. 



The apparently single preserved original specimen is designated as lectotype. It 

 lacks the gaster but I found another male, from Rhodesia (restriction of the type- 

 locality), which compares well with the lectotype and Cameron's description of the 

 gaster as well. 



The species was described in an article on some parasitic Hymenoptera from 

 Argentina. Cameron made a serious mistake in assuming that the material of this 

 species, actually bearing no locality label, also came from Argentina; he mentioned 

 no locality, however, as he normally did with the other species. The species 

 belongs to a species-group with three strong keels on the pronotum and no such 

 species is known yet from the Americas. 



Whilst the females are relatively easy to separate from L. ornata, mainly on 

 the shorter ovipositor and the absence of a furrow on the first tergite (Text-fig. 

 138), the males are extremely similar to that species. Compared with L. ornata, 

 they are (in varicollis) usually smaller, 4-5-8-3 mm; first tergite narrower and 

 relatively longer, 1-42-1-86 times as long as broad; hind femur (Text-fig. 139) 

 relatively broader near the base, usually bordered by whitish colour along the 

 ventral and dorso-apical edges, or, if completely bordered, the white is narrowed 

 dorso-basally and the pilosity of outer side of femur is rather rough; gaster usually 

 with only one narrow cross-band just behind broadest part and a transverse subapical 



