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femur with coarse puncturation externally, not carinate dorsally; tibia subcarinate dorsally 

 and ventro-laterally. Hind coxa (Text-fig. 216) densely punctured, pubescence of medium 

 length; dorsal side flat anteriorly, narrowing caudad, with slender oblique tooth bearing 

 piliferous punctures; depression of coxa narrow, most densely punctured in upper half; meso- 

 ventral edge strongly curved. Hind femur densely punctured; basal tooth rather sharp, 

 strong, following teeth small, the middle the longest. Hind tibia at apex slightly obliquely 

 truncate, outer spur not very small; external carina developed along three-fifths. Fore wing 

 with stigmal vein curved, uncus as long as or slightly longer than terminal processus. 



Gaster subconstricted at apex of first tergite, behind first third of fifth tergite slightly 

 narrowing towards the broadly rounded apex; dorsum nearly plain. Pilosity (as on thorax) 

 short, semi-erect to erect. Puncturation dense, mainly coarse, but much finer on first tergite, 

 especially at the parallel-sided ovipositorial furrow which is smooth on bottom. First tergite 

 slightly longer than broad, its breadth subequal to dorsal length of fifth tergite; latter with 

 rather shallow dorsal furrow, its length distinctly inferior to its distance, medially, from apex 

 of gaster. Spiracles situated in upper third of height of gaster (lateral view), lower end of 

 exposed part of sixth tergite slightly below middle. Ovipositor sheaths about reaching base 

 of gaster. 



(J. 6-1 1 mm. Colour as in $ but tarsi paler, in small specimens scutellar spots connected 

 in posterior half; gaster: first tergite with broad dorsal band, third and fourth with epipleura 

 mainly pale yellow, fourth tergite also with a band dorsally; sixth tergite posteriorly with 

 reversed-cordiform macula; a small spot on epipygium; also sternites 1-4 mainly pale. Basal 

 flagellar segments less elongate than in 9. the second only 1-4 times as long as broad. Gastral 

 tergites dorsally fused almost without trace, basal ones separated only below the double-curved 

 epipleural carina. Apical corners of sixth tergite shortly tooth-like; epipygium with shallow 

 transverse depression, apex rounded. First sternite strongly conical but tooth blunt at apex; 

 sternites 2-5 decreasingly transverse, sixth and seventh (last) subquadrate, fourth sternite 

 hardly depressed medially, fifth to seventh increasingly depressed; last very deeply so, its 

 apical margin narrowly emarginate, the raised sublateral horizontal areas very densely hairy. 



Biology. Unknown. 



Holotype $, Australia: Western Australia, Waroona, 17.xii.1909 (G. F. Berthoud) 

 (BMNH). 



Paratypes. Same locality as holotype, 22. ii.1908, 30.1.1909 and 24.ii.1910, 2 $, 

 1 <J (allotype) (Bethoud) (MNHN, Paris and BMNH); Capel District, 18 mis S. of 

 Bunbury, 7.1.1957, 1 £ (A. Snell) (AM, Sydney). 



Very close to L. rieki nom. n. but lacks metallic colour. 



Leucospis australis Walker 

 (Text-figs 2H, 212) 



Leucospis australis Walker, 1871 : 57, <$. LECTOTYPE <J (here designated), Australia: 



South Australia (BMNH) [examined]. 

 Leucospis Darlingii Westwood, 1874 : 134-135, pi. 25, fig. 4, §. LECTOTYPE 9 (here 



designated), 'Australia' (UM, Oxford) [examined]. Syn. n. 

 Exoclaenoides uncinctus Girault, 1915 : 356-357, 9- Holotype 9. Australia: Queensland, 



Brisbane (QM, Brisbane). Syn. n. 

 Exoclaenoides mutilloides Girault, 1921 : 189. LECTOTYPE 9- (here designated), Australia: 



Queensland, Brisbane (QM, Brisbane). Syn. n. 



In each case the original material is apparently represented by single specimens 

 which are designated as lectotypes except in uncinctus, the author of which stated 

 that he had only one specimen. 



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