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The Australian specimens of L. histrio show a uniformity in colour which does 

 not occur in the more northerly and westerly specimens attributed in this paper 

 to the nominate subspecies. Consequently the Australian form is regarded as a 

 different subspecies, as mentioned above. 



Biology. Host unknown. The difference in the colour between this and the 

 nominate subspecies suggests that the host bee may be different, or the 'model' 

 wasp is different. 



Distribution. Australia: Queensland. 



Material examined. 



Australia: Queensland, Cape York, v. 1902, 1 $ (G. Turner) (BMNH); Q., 

 Bundalberg, 1 $ (BMNH); Q., Endeavour River, 1 $; Q., Mackay, 1891-1900, 

 21 $, 2 <$ (G. Turner) (BMNH); Q., Tambourine Mountain, 1 $ (W. H. Davidson) 

 (CSIRO, Canberra). 



Leucospis darjilingensis Mani 

 (Text-figs 181-184) 



Leucospis darjilingensis Mani, 1937 : 294-295, $. Holotype $• India: Darjeeling (ZSI, Calcutta) 

 [examined] . 



I have not seen any other specimen except the holotype (no other specimen 

 has been recorded), but L. darjilingensis apparently is a good species close to 

 L. histrio Maindron and L. intermedia Illiger. From these species it differs by the 

 characters mentioned in the key and by the following. 



Antenna relatively short, distal segments beginning with the fourth flagellar transverse, the 

 third subquadrate; flagellum combined with pedicellus very slightly shorter than breadth of 

 head (in histrio distinctly longer). Frontovertex distinctly broader than maximum diameter 

 (height) of eye and the head in facial view is rather transverse (Text-fig. 183), similar to 

 L. intermedia Illiger (Text-fig. 187) . Hind femur very finely punctured externally, punctures finer 

 than in histrio. First tergite in female bears two yellow streaks converging more distinctly 

 towards outer margins of the base of the single ovipositorial furrow (Text-fig. 181). 



Biology. Host unknown. 

 Distribution. North India. 



The PET 10 LATA -Group 



The species of this group have long teeth on hind femur, the pronotum with a 

 shallow but conspicuous transverse depression between arcuate anterior and posterior 

 (this in place of the premarginal carina) swellings or ribs which are usually marked 

 with yellow; the body without metallic tinge. The hind tibia is produced apically 

 into a distinct spine. In these characters the species agree mostly with the gigas- 

 group, but in that group the concave band on pronotum is not distinct, the hind 

 coxa has the dorsal edge posteriorly very thin but not toothed, the ovipositor is 

 longer, etc., as mentioned in the key, couplet 3. 



