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Guinea, and no species has been described from outside the 
Australian Region. Thus the present new generic synonymy results 
in the first report of Salduba from the Oriental Region. 
Salduba carinifrons (Enderlein), new combination 
Archisolva carinifrons Enderlein, 1921: 187. 
Type material. The unique female holotype is presently housed 
in the Zoologisches Museum of the Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin, 
East Germany. It is labeled “Lombok Sapit 2000' Mai-Juni 1896. H. 
Fruhstorfer/ Type [red]/ Archisolva carinifrons Type Enderl. 9 Dr. 
Enderlein det. 1920.” I have added a determination label indicating 
the new combination. The specimen is missing the last two segments 
of the right antenna. The left antenna is missing most of the eighth 
flagellomere, and is glued to a paper point beneath the specimen. 
The left middle leg beyond the middle of the femur, and the left wing 
are also lost. The right wing is glued to a paper card beneath the 
specimen. 
Remarks. At present it is not possible to determine if S. carini¬ 
frons is conspecific with any other species of Salduba without 
examination of other types. The genus at present is in need of 
revision. 
Salduba carinifrons has the ventral spine-like tubercles on the 
hind femora (Fig. 1) that some, but not all, Salduba species possess. 
This character would appear to be apomorphic for the group of 
species that exhibit the tubercles, as no other pachygasterines that I 
am aware of possess them. Some species of Salduba do not have 
femoral tubercles, but it cannot be determined at present if this 
character state is plesiomorphic or has resulted from a secondary 
loss of the tubercles. The same argument can be applied to the 
posterodorsal swelling on the fifth abdominal tergite that some 
Salduba possess. Although quite faint in S’, carinifrons, it is present. 
Of the species I have examined, S. carinifrons appears to be most 
closely related to specimens identified as S. lugubris Walker. The 
two taxa share the above pair of characters, and also lack thoracic 
vittae and frontal processes at the bases of the antennae. These two 
species have the narrowest wing bases that I have observed within 
the genus. Salduba carinifrons differs from all other species I have 
seen in that it has wholly pale anterior tibiae. 
Acknowledgments. I am grateful to H. Schumann for the loan of 
