REVISION OF LEUCOSPIDAE 147 



(IEA, Portici); Mostar, 1 $ {Horvdth) (TM, Budapest); Crna Gora ( = Montenegro), 

 vi. 1865, 1 $ (MNHN, Paris). Albania: no data, 1 $ (MNHN, Paris), 3 $ {Saunders) 

 (BMNH); Kopliku, 1 ? (MCSN, Genoa). Greece: Attika, 1 $ (BMNH); Stavros, 

 viii. 1965, 1 $ (Warncke) (BMNH); Crete, nr Heraklion, vii. 1955, 1 $ (Schmidt) 

 (ERI, Ottawa) ; Candia, vi. 1925, 2 $ (A.Schulz) (MNHU, Berlin); Rhodes, Kremasti, 

 vi. 1958, 1 o (Mavromoustakis) (BMNH). Bulgaria: Sandanski, vii. 1966, 1 $ 

 (Kocourek). U.S.S.R.: Daghestan, Novyj Biriuzak, vii. 1970, 1 $ (Vorobiov) 

 (BMNH); Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Tshupan Ata, 2 $ (TM, Budapest). Turkey: 

 Sariseki nr Iskenderun, vii. 1952, 1 $ (Schmidt) (ERI, Ottawa); Antakya, v-vi. i960, 

 2 $; Tekirdag, 24 km on Malkara-Inecik road, viii. 1962, 1 9 (Guichard & Harvey) 

 (BMNH). Cyprus: Cherkes, vi-viii. 1934, 4 $, 5 <$; Limassol, ix. 1936, 1 $ 

 (Mavromoustakis) (BMNH). Israel: Wadi el Kelt nr Jericho, x. 1942, 1 $ (Houska) 

 (NM, Prague). 



Leucospis obsoleta Klug 



(Text-fig. 174) 



Leucospis obsoleta Klug, 1834 : Dec. 4: [26], pi. 37, fig. 5, §. Holotype $, Sudan: Ambikol 

 (= Ambukol) (MNHU, Berlin) [examined]. 



Schletterer (1890 : 215-217) redescribed the species and Boucek (1959: figs 9, 10) 

 illustrated some of its characters but until now only the holotype is known, which 

 seems to throw some doubt on the validity of the species. I must admit that it 

 might prove to be an extremely aberrant specimen of L. dorsigera Fabricius, although 

 it may equally well be a good species. I have seen several Mediterranean specimens 

 of L. dorsigera which show slightly similar teeth on the hind femur, but the femur 

 itself was always much broader than in the type of obsoleta. The following is an 

 account of some characters (partly used in the key) which might prove reliable. 



9- 6-9 mm. Colour of pale markings whitish, rather extensive, for example pronotum all 

 broadly framed, posterior two-thirds of scutellum white, also dorsellum, but epipygium black. 

 Hairs on face whitish. Middle tooth of clypeus shorter than side lobes. Scapus slender, 

 fully four times as long as broad (in dorsigera females of about same size scapus only three times 

 as long as broad) ; antenna rather slender, flagellum barely clavate. Pre-marginal carina of 

 pronotum weak, on lateral thirds indistinct. Puncturation of thorax and of gaster relatively 

 very coarse. Hind femur rather slender, with teeth 1-73 times, without teeth 2-15 times as 

 long as broad (Text-fig. 174), unusually coarsely punctured (as in L. elegans Klug), with only 

 7 teeth of which three proximal ones are separated by very broad gaps. Gaster with dorsal 

 outline subhorizontal, also ovipositor subhorizontal, reaching about anterior one-third of first 

 tergite; this tergite with ovipositorial furrow not tapering basad. 



Biology. Unknown. 

 Distribution. N. Sudan. 



Leucospis biguetina Jurine 



(Text-figs 171, 172) 



Leucospis Biguetina Jurine, 1807 : 307, pi. 13, fig. 45. LECTOTYPE 9 (here designated), 



Switzerland (MHN, Geneva) [examined]. 

 Leucaspis parvicauda Mocsary, 1879 : 119-120,9. LECTOTYPE 9 (here designated), Hungary 

 Budapest-Gellerthegy (TM, Budapest) [examined]. 



