REVISION OF LEUCOSPIDAE 155 



Genoa); Sabratha nr Tripoli (Guichard) (BMNH). Egypt: Pyramids (MCSN, 

 Genoa); without data (RNH, Leiden). Lebanon: Becharre, 1400 m (NM, Vienna). 



The Asiatic and Australian species 



The area covered by this part of the revision ranges from Asia Minor to the 

 Society Islands in Polynesia, including Siberia, Japan and Australia. The 

 Palaearctic (mainly East Mediterranean) species are included in the key but they 

 are discussed elsewhere (pp. 140-155), except those which are known only from the 

 Asiatic countries. 



Altogether 40 species are discussed. They are classified as follows: L. regalis 

 as species sola, then the gigas-group (only L. histrio and L. darjilingensis) , the 

 petiolata-gr oup, the elegans-group, the australis-group, the dorsigera-group (only 

 L. japonica, L. yasumatsui and L. aurantiaca) , the pediculata-group, the aruina- 

 group and L. antiqua as species sola. The australis-group is confined to Australia 

 (but not the only one to contain Australian species); L. regalis, L. antiqua, the 

 pediculata-group and the aruina-group are known only from the Indo-Australian 

 region (and some Pacific islands). The elegans-group is well represented also in 

 Africa and in the Mediterranean subregion, as well as the gigas-group which is, 

 however, poorer in species. 



Key to the Asiatic and Australian species of LEUCOSPIS 



Body including legs very vividly metallic, mainly violaceous, sides greenish, vertex 

 sometimes golden; dorsally fairly shiny; pronotum in front of sharp premarginal 

 carina transversely depressed; teeth of hind femur (Text-fig. 177) not long but 

 the first shorter than middle teeth; hind coxa smooth in depression, with slender 

 dorsal tooth ....... regalis Westwood (p. J62) 



Body not vividly metallic; if tinged with fairly bright metallic colour, then pronotum 



otherwise and hind femur with basal tooth the strongest and hind coxa otherwise. 2 



Hind femur with three to four long slender teeth (apart from fused distal teeth) but 

 basal tooth usually smaller than following teeth (Text-figs 179, 182, 190, 193); 

 pronotum without discal cross-carina ; body non-metallic; apex of hind tibia 

 obliquely produced into a spine ......... 3 



Hind femur with many small teeth, basal tooth stronger and broader than any of 

 the following or, if about as large, pronotum with conspicuous discal carina; body 

 sometimes with metallic tinge; apex of hind tibia truncate or produced into a 

 spine .............. 13 



Frons partly yellow or, if black ($ gigas), dorsellum bidentate; dorsal edge of hind 

 coxa posteriorly thin but without tooth; pronotum in front of premarginal carina 

 not depressed or very weakly so; ovipositor reaching at least to apex of first 

 tergite (gigas), this tergite dorsally with single or double ovipositorial furrow; 

 in ^ gaster barely constricted subbasally, hind margin of first tergite broadly 

 emarginate ............ 4 



Frons without yellow; dorsellum posteriorly always rounded; hind coxa dorso- 

 posteriorly not thin, often with a low tooth; pronotum in front of premarginal 

 carina distinctly transversely depressed; ovipositor reaching at most to base of 

 fifth tergite; gaster in g subbasally constricted, hind margin of first tergite 

 straight ............. 7 



