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tion irregularly rugulose, not very fine; interantennal area with smooth median ridge which is 

 carinate more dorsally; eye orbit barely emarginate. Relative measurements: height of head 

 72, width of frontovertex 58, scrobes 29, lower face 51, its height 32, eye 54 : 38, malar space 

 11-5, mouth 40, scape 25. Lower margin of clypeus very slightly produced, with semicircular 

 small lateral lobes and triangular median tooth. 



Pubescence of thorax whitish, short; puncturation relatively fine but unequal, interspaces 

 mostly smooth, only anteriorly on mesoscutum with some microscopic cross-striation and 

 laterally on scutellum with scattered minute punctures. Pronotum strongly transversely 

 convex; slightly swollen arcuate anterior ridge connected medially with angulately raised 

 discal carina, also premarginal and marginal carina strongly raised; sides dorsally subconcave, 

 slightly converging; lateral panel dorsally not delimited, except for small adspiracular space 

 all slightly convex, very coarsely horizontally rugose-punctured, lower corner obtuse-angular. 

 Mesoscutum with transversely raised rugae, slightly depressed submedially posteriorly and 

 here with deep coarse punctures; notaular furrows anteriorly indicated; vestiges of parapsidal 

 furrows deep but short. Scutellum nearly 1 3 times as broad as long, fairly convex, at deep 

 admarginal crenulate furrow with a shiny strip of obliterated sculpture. Dorsellum extremely 

 short, forming a swollen band with piliferous separated punctures; shorter than propodeum 

 medially; sides of metanotum with a row of foveolae. Propodeum very coarsely irregularly 

 punctured, with short hairs; plicae not conspicuous; postspiracular furrow with strong cross- 

 ridge just behind middle, hind fovea with very short and extremely fine dense pubescence, 

 hairs grey. Upper mesopleurum densely coarsely punctured, interspaces smooth. Fore femur 

 not carinate but fore tibia with distinct dorsal and externo-ventral carinae. Hind coxa 

 nearly regularly and fairly densely punctured, pubescence short; dorsal edge moderately broad 

 anteriorly, narrowing caudad and with increasingly high though irregular inner carina, dorsal 

 edge in two-thirds still nearly as broad as hind basitarsus; no dorsal tooth indicated; depression 

 broad, fairly concave. Hind femur (Text-fig. 199) sparsely and not coarsely punctured, shiny; 

 also hind tibia externally rather sparsely finely punctured; apex distinctly produced into a 

 spine. 



Gaster distinctly longer than head plus thorax combined, slightly higher than broad, even 

 anteriorly very broad; puncturation generally not very dense, pubescence inconspicuous, 

 extremely short. First tergite o-8 as broad as gaster posteriorly, about 1-2 times as long as 

 broad; simple median ovipositorial furrow smooth on bottom, delimited by raised carinate 

 margins; sublaterally interspaces much broader than punctures, denser at smooth hind margins. 

 Third tergite not depressed, sparsely coarsely punctured (in middle nearly smooth) but with 

 crowded line of punctures along the subangulate hind margin; medially with subcarinate 

 shallow ovipositorial furrow. Fifth tergite with much coarser puncturation, ovipositorial 

 furrow expanding and shallower posteriorly, in median line tergite about two-thirds as long 

 as first tergite. Ovipositor reaching dorsellum. 



(J. Unknown. 



Biology. Unknown. 



Holotype $, Philippines: Camarines Sur, Mt Iriga, 500-600 m, 19.iv.1962 

 {H. Torrevillas) (BBM, Honolulu). 



Leucospis violaceipennis Strand 

 (Text-figs 207, 208) 



Leucospis violaceipennis Strand, 19116 : 169, $. Holotype $, New Ireland: Lamasong 

 (MNHU, Berlin) [examined]. 



By its black colour and rather sparse puncturation (at least on the gaster) 

 L. violaceipennis shows a great similarity to L. nigerrima Kohl, although both belong 

 to different species-groups. Within the elegans-group L. violaceipennis seems 

 to be closest to L. moleyrei Maindron. 



