194 z - BOUCEK 



I feel sure that australis and darlingii are different sexes of the same species. 

 I could not see the type of uncinctus but have seen a female which fits almost exactly 

 the detailed description of colour by Girault. Mr E. Dahms (of Brisbane) kindly 

 sent me drawings he made from its type and from the type of mutilloid.es (and 

 co-operated in the designation of the single original female of mutilloides as lectotype) 

 and Dr Riek kindly submitted a female compared with the latter. Morphologically 

 they cannot be separated from darlingii (= australis), but differ slightly in colour, 

 having, in the type of mutilloides, the pronotal red-orange band reduced to a small 

 transverse spot and the maculae on the first tergite reduced to small lateral spots, 

 whilst the band on the fifth tergite and apex of gaster are very extensively orange. 

 On the other hand, in the type of uncinctus, the pronotal band is complete and 

 partly double, the maculae on the first tergite are large but the bands on the fifth 

 tergite and at apex are only moderately broad. Some of the specimens which I 

 have seen are rather intermediate. Therefore I think that all of them belong to 

 one species, although, for the time being, I am unable to explain why the colour 

 markings do not spread correspondingly on the mentioned parts of the body. 



The orange markings vary greatly also in the male. In the one redescribed by 

 Strand (19116 : 163, 168) it spreads for example over the whole apical half of the 

 gaster. I compared this male with the type of australis and with that described 

 by Schletterer (1890:249-251). Length of body 6-3-10-0 mm, female io-o- 

 15-5 mm. 



Biology. Host unknown. 



Distribution. Australia. 



Material examined. 



Type data given in synonymy. 



Australia: no data, 1 J (EI, Zurich); 1870, 1 $ {Higgin) (UM, Oxford); 'N. 

 Australia', 3 <J (BMNH); New South Wales, Blue Mts, i. 1934, 1 $ (K. K. Spence) 

 (CSIRO, Canberra); N.S.W., Sydney, 1 $ (BMNH); Victoria, Melbourne, 1 <J (Rolle) 

 (MNHU, Berlin; cf. Strand, 19116). 



The DORSIGERA -Group 



This group is treated elsewhere (pp. 142-148) but it seems appropriate to mention 

 here the Asiatic species, L. ja^onica Walker, L. yasumatsui Habu and L. aurantiaca 

 Shestakov. 



Leucospis japonica Walker 



Leucospis japonicaWalker, i8ji : 56-57,$. LECTOTYPE $ (here designated) , Japan (BMNH) 



[examined]. 

 Leucospis exornata Walker, 1871 : 57-58, $. LECTOTYPE 9- (here designated), Hong Kong 



(BMNH) [examined]. Syn. n. 



