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in the middle. The face is relatively narrower (Text-fig. 158), with genae, in 

 facial view, appearing nearly as long as the part of clypeus produced beyond their 

 level. And in the male the gaster bears, as in L. gigas, one broad yellow to slightly 

 orange band on the first tergite, on the carapace two more bands and a broad 

 rounded macula on the sixth tergite, the two bands and macula indented anteriorly 

 in the middle; also epipygium with a transverse macula; sides of carapace 

 (epipleura) extensively yellowish. The fore wing in both sexes slightly but 

 distinctly infuscate apically beyond the stigmal vein (the latter with long slender 

 uncus). Size in female 9-15 mm, male (until now undescribed) 9-5-12-0 mm. 



Biology. Host unknown. 



Distribution. Morocco, Algeria, Lybia, Egypt, Israel. 



Material examined. 



Type data given in synonymy. 



Morocco: Tamralta, 1 <$ (MNHN, Paris). Algeria: Oran; El Asnam ( = 

 Orleansville) ; Arzew; Ain-Sefra; Mokladeli; Laghouat; Tilgemt; 15 $, 16 £ (MNHN, 

 Paris). Lybia: Cyrenaica, Bersis, W. of Tocra, 26.vii.1957, 1 $ (K. M. Guichard) 

 (BMNH); Benghasi, v-viii. 1924-1928, 3 9 {G. C. Kriiger) (MCSN, Genoa), 4JV.1954, 

 1 $ (Guichard) (BMNH); Rommel's Pool, 17. viii. 1957, 1 $, 1 <J {Guichard) (BMNH). 

 Egypt: Meadi, 19.iv.1912, 1 $ (L. H. G.) (BMNH); 'Amrich', v., 1 <$ (EI, Zurich). 

 Israel: Jericho, 27.n1. and 4.^.1909, 1 $, 1 $ (F. D. Morice) (BMNH). 



Leucospis incarnata Westwood 



(Text-fig. 157) 



Leucospis incarnata Westwood, 1839 : 248, $. LECTOTYPE $ (here designated), South 

 Africa: Cape Province (MNHU, Berlin) [examined]. 



By his description Westwood validated the name incarnata given to the species 

 originally by Klug, to whom the material belonged. No mention was made as to 

 how many specimens there were, hence the single preserved female referred to as 

 'Klug's Type' by Schletterer (1890 : 214) is designated as lectotype. 



The species is very close to the North African L. miniata Klug and when compared 

 with that the following characters of L. incarnata appear to differ. The 

 puncturation generally coarser and much less crowded, leaving in many places, for 

 example on pronotum sublaterally, on the gastral dorsum and flanks and on hind 

 femora, distinct smooth interspaces which are on average about half as broad as 

 punctures. Consequently also the pilosity is sparser, but conspicuously longer 

 than in miniata, on pronotum the hairs being about as long as width of the antcnnal 

 flagellum in the middle. The face relatively broader (Text-fig. 157), with the 

 clypeal margin distinctly much more protruding compared with the shorter malar 

 space. The male (hitherto undescribed) seems to have the puncturation relatively 

 still sparser, with interspaces on gaster up to as broad as punctures, and the pilosity 



