REVISION OF LEUCOSPIDAE 135 



Biology. Host unknown. Probably a species preferring forest or shady 

 habitats. 



Distribution. Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, north-east South Africa, 

 Lesotho. 



Material examined. 



Type data given in synonymy. 



Uganda: Ruwenzori Range, Semliki Forest, Hot Springs, 900 m, viii. 1952, 1 $ 

 (D. S. Fletcher) (BMNH). Tanzania: 'NW. Tanganyika', 1910, 1 $ (Grauer) 

 (NM, Vienna); Ukami District, 1 $ (TM, Budapest); Langenburg (= Lumbira), 

 2 $, paralectotypes of fuelleborniana (MNHU, Berlin). Mozambique: Inhambane, 

 1 $ {R. F. Lawrence) (SAM, Cape Town). Lesotho: Moryo, 1917, 1 9 (H. Junod) 

 (CU, Ithaca). South Africa: Zululand, Mfongosi, xii. 1911, 3 £ (IF. E. Jones) 

 (SAM, Cape Town; BMNH); Natal, Lake Sibayi, iii. 1968, 1 $ (D. J. Brothers) 

 (AM, Grahamstown). 



Leucospis reversa sp. n. 



(Text-fig. 161) 



9- 8-5-14-0 mm. Antennae, head and thorax mainly black, gaster red or brownish red; 

 legs mainly red with fore and mid legs more or less infuscate, hind coxa extensively black from 

 base; prepectus and tegula, sometimes also narrowly front and hind margins of pronotum and a 

 spot on subalar area (below tegula) reddish; ovipositor sheaths and teeth of hind femur black. 

 Wings blackish with slight violaceous tint. 



Shape of body very similar to L. fuelleborniana Hndcrlein (Text-fig. 160). 



Head hardly narrower than pronotum posteriori}', in dorsal view about 2-3 times as broad as 

 long; temples short, appearing step-like, but not carinate. Occipital carina sharp but not 

 high, laterally disappearing before reaching level with inner eye margin; vertex rather flat, 

 punctured sublaterally, cross-striate posteriorly, ocellar area slightly elevated, ocellar triangle 

 about 2 -2 times as broad as high ; ocelli large; POL fully 1-2 times OOL; median ocellus separated 

 by a groove from carinate margin of scrobes, carina sharp even on subrectangular frontal 

 protuberances. In facial view head 1-25-1-30 times as broad as high; face with very short 

 dense whitish pubescence, very densely vertically rugulose-punctured, at eyes in addition with 

 microscopic reticulation; also eyes densely pubescent except narrowly at lower end, inner 

 orbits distinctly emarginate; interantennal lobe carinate; clypeus slightly broader than high, 

 with coarse vertical rugosity, its lower margin not produced, side lobes only weakly indicated, 

 depressed, mid tooth distinct, slightly protruding. Relative measurements: width of head 86, 

 frontovertex 44, scrobes 26, lower face 40-5, its height 36, eye 53-0 : 32-5, malar space 13, 

 mouth 34. Lower dent (notch) of mandible small, subtriangular. Flagellum plus pedicellus 

 about 1-3 times as long as width of head, stout-subfUiform ; pedicellus dorsally subquadrate, 

 not distinctly cross-depressed at base; first flagellar segment obconical, oblong, second to fifth 

 slightly (decreasingly) elongate, distal segments slightly transverse; clava about 1-7 times as 

 long as broad. 



Pubescence of thorax brownish, rather short; puncturation very dense, narrow interspaces 

 present sometimes on scutellum anteriorly, but then dull, microscopically reticulate-granulate. 

 Pronotum with distinct cross-depression delimited anteriorly by a blunt ridge, posteriorly by 

 conspicuous though not very sharp premarginal carina; hind margin distinctly carinate; sides 

 converging in concave curves; lateral panel low, with impunctate but finely reticulate horizontal 

 depression deepened posteriorly where slightly curving up and narrowing to join the pre- 



