20 4 Z. BOUCEK 



This species is very similar and closely related to L. pyriformis (Weld), formerly 

 classified with Epexoclaenoides Girault (now regarded a synonym of Leucospis 

 Fabricius), but differs, apart from the V-shaped yellow band on the gaster and 

 some structural characters, mainly in having the teeth on the hind femur irregular, 

 not minute. L. globigera shares this character with the following species, L. 

 micrura Schletterer, and it is mainly on the basis of these intergrades that 

 Epexoclaenoides is sunk in synonymy. 



Leucospis micrura Schletterer 



(Text-fig. 236) 



Leucospis micrura Schletterer, 1890 : 232-233, §. Holotype $, Maluku: Ambon (= Amboina) 

 (NM, Vienna) [examined]. 



I compared the holotype with the larger specimen mentioned below (10 mm) 

 and could not separate them as different species, although the latter has the 

 sloping postero-dorsal margin of hind coxa slightly serrate. 



When the present paper was in galley the BMNH received two females of a 

 Leucospis which runs to L. micrura Schletterer in the above key, except that the 

 hind femur is mainly black, not red. I think that these specimens may represent an 

 undescribed species, rather than an aberrant form of micrura. They fit well Text- 

 fig. 236 but when compared with the Sulawesi specimen (the holotype of micrura 

 having been returned to NM, Vienna), they show a distinctly denser puncturation 

 of the body, extremely dense especially on the hind femur which is quite dull, but 

 rather convex externally. Body length only 6-2 and 7 mm respectively. West 

 Malaysia: Johore, G. Lambak, 27. xi. 1970 (C. G. Roche). 



Biology. Unknown. 



Distribution. Sulawesi, Moluccas. 



Material examined. 



Type data given in synonymy. 



Sulawesi: Bonthain, Wawa Karaeng, 1100 m, ix-x. 1931, 1 $ (G. Heinrich) 

 (MNHU, Berlin). 



The ARUINA-Group 



All species of this group have a relatively slender body, including the legs. The pronotum 

 is not distinctly depressed transversely, the carinae very low; the dorsellum is laminately 

 carinate, often subbidentate, dorsally flat ; the hind leg is slender, femur with large basal tooth 

 and rather broad, well separated following smaller teeth; most distinctive is the hind coxa: it 

 is unusually elongate, with flat or moderately convex but always rather broad dorsal side, 

 instead of dorsal edge (Text-fig. 239). 



Nothing is known about the biology but the species belonging here, i.e. L. aruina 

 Walker, L. sedlaceki sp. n. and L. niticoxa sp. n., are confined to the Australian 



