202 z. bouCek 



identity. The material of the British Museum (Natural History) was identified 

 already by Waterston as E. bicinctus, but the latter name is preoccupied in the 

 genus Leucospis Fabricius. 



Girault (1915) mentions the size of the female as 9 mm; they may be much 

 smaller, 6*5-9-0 mm, the male 6 mm. The species is extremely close to L. pediculata 

 Guerin-Meneville from which it diffeis mainly in longer pubescence of the face and 

 a tendency to rufinism of dark-coloured parts of body, in both sexes (hitherto 

 found in all specimens examined). The face is thickly covered with a mixture of 

 shorter and longer hairs, the longer ones being very numerous and even the shorter 

 ones on frons are about or nearly as long as the much sparser hairs on the 

 subhorizontal frontovertex. 



L. giraulti was figured in Tillyard (1926 : 273, pi. 21, fig. 9, as 'Exoclaenoides 

 cinctus Gir.') and in Riek (1970 : fig. 37. 25G). 



Biology. Recorded as a parasite of Pison sp. (Hym., Sphecidae) by Riek 

 (1970 : 918). 



Distribution. Australia: Queensland. 



Material examined. 



Australia: Queensland, Cairns, vii. 1904, 1 $ (R. C. L. Perkins) (BMNH); Q., 

 Halifax, 12.iv.-30.vi.1919, 5 $ (F. X. Williams) (BBM, Honolulu); Q., Towns ville, 

 27.ii.1902, 1 <$ (F. P. Dodd) (BMNH); Q., Mackay, xii.-i., iii.-v.1891, 1899, 1900, 

 1902, 10 $, 1 (J (G. Turner) (BMNH). 



Leucospis pyriformis (Weld) comb. n. 

 (Text-fig. 234) 



Epexoclaenoides pyriformis Weld, 1922 : 35—37, pi. 2, fig. 7, pi. 3, fig. 20, $ <J. Holotype 9- 

 India: Bihar (USNM). 



This species is very characteristic by its relatively short body with short ovipositor 

 in the female. 



Biology. Parasite of Xenorhynchium nitidulum (Fabricius) and Rhynchium 

 sp., Eumenidae, Hymenoptera (Mani, 1936; 1937). 



Distribution. Pakistan, India (from Bombay to Bengal and Karikal). 

 Material examined. 



Pakistan: Hyderabad, i. 1973, in nest of Xenorhynchium nitidulum, 1 <$ (Mrs H. 

 Spurway) (RNH, Leiden). India: without data, 1 $ (BMNH); Bihar, Pusa, 5 xii. 

 1914, 1 $ (BMNH); Karikal Territory, Karumbargaram, vi. 1951, 1 $ (P. 5. Nathan) 

 (ERI, Ottawa). 



Leucospis globigera sp. n. 



9. 5 -0-5 -8 mm. Black, sometimes dorsally on thorax and gaster with very slight bluish 

 tint; flagellum (at least apically), sides of pronotum, scutellum, dorsellum and partly propodeum 

 and legs reddish instead of black ; whitish yellow are : scape, on pronotum arcuate band anteriorly 



