REVISION OF LEUCOSPIDAE 201 



Leucospis pediculata Guerin-Meneville 



(Text-figs 230, 231, 233) 



Leucospis pediculata Guerin-Meneville, 1835 : pi. 67, fig. 7, £; 1844 : 413-414,$. LECTOTYPE 

 O. (here designated), Java (MNHN, Paris) [examined]. 



The type-material must have consisted originally of both sexes, for the figure 

 validating the name clearly shows a male, whilst the actual description mentioning 

 the female, and based apparently on the same material, was published only nine 

 years later (for the dates of publication of Gucrin-Meneville's plates and of the text 

 see van der Vecht, 1957). Nowadays only one female is preserved and this is 

 accepted as lectotype. The original label on the pinned lectotype shows a small 

 sketch of the female gaster, with parts of gaster mounted alongside, which seems to 

 exclude the possibility that Guerin-Meneville might confuse the sexes. His published 

 figure of the male is inexact only in the placement of the second yellow band on the 

 thorax, probably due to the pinning of the specimen. That reflected in the slightly 

 misleading description of Guerin-Mt'-m \ ille's figure of the male by Westwood 

 (1839 : 254; cf. also Schletterer, 1890 : 29), mentioning a band on mesoscutum. 

 Further, still deeper confusion was caused by Schletterer (1890 : 291), who under 

 L. pediculata quoted by mistake Guerin-Meneville's description of L. poeyi, including 

 the locality 'Cuba'. 



L. pediculata is very close to the Australian L. ^iraulti nom. n. Apart from the 

 apparently allopatric distribution, L. pediculata differs by the generally dark colour 

 of the body, darker infumation of the wings and the slightly slenderer and less 

 pubescent body. 



Biology. Unknown; probably also a parasite in wasp nests. 



Distribution. India, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, Java. 



Material examined. 



Type data given in synonymy. 



India: Coimbatore, x. 1955, 1 $ (P. S. Nathan) (Townes). Burma: Bhamo, 

 xi. 1886, 1 $ (L. Fea) (MCSN, Genoa). Malaya: Kuala Lumpur, 27.viii. 1933; 1 $, 

 20.V.1935, 3 $ (H. M. Pendelbury); 24.ii.1928, 1 $ {H. T. Pagden) (BMNH); Johore, 

 G. Pulai, 17.ii.1969, 1 $ (C. G. Roche) (BMNH). Singapore, 14.V.1968, 1 $, 2 6* 

 (C. G. Roche) (BMNH). Java: Semarang, 1905, 3$, i<J (E.Jacobson) (RNH, Leiden); 

 Dramaga, 25. v. 1965, 1 $ (/. E. Lukavsky) (ERI, Ottawa). 



Leucospis giraulti nom. n. 



(Text-fig. 232) 



Epexoclaenoid.es bicinctus Girault, 1915 : 357-358, $. Holotype $, Australia: Queensland, 

 Brisbane (QM, Brisbane). [Junior secondary homonym of Leucospis bicincta Viereck, 

 1906 : 227.] 



I have not seen the type but since this is the only Australian species and the 

 material at my disposal also comes from Queensland I have no doubt about the 



