S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 45/1. (Budapest, 1984)

rectly Udawattekele), "collected on or in leaf litter", "K.V.KROMBEIN, P.

B.KARUNARATNE, T. WIJESINHE, L. JAYAWICKREMA, V. GUNAWARDANE" (Washington USNM Type No. 101156). The specific differentatlon of this species from its congeners is given ln the key:couplet (8-11). I name this species in honour of the distinguished hymenopterist and ornithologist Dr.D.Stefan PETERS In Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt/Main. Sulcomesitius bahaduri (Kurian, 1955) Mesitius bahaduri Kurian, 1955: Agra Univ.J.Res. 4 (I): 83 o , figs 65-69 Sulcomesitius bahaduri Móczár 1970b: Acta zool.hung. 16: 411, 423 ç_ Specimens examined: none. - Distribution: IIIj. India (KURIAN 1955). Sulcomesitius duni (Kurian, 1955) Mesitius dunl Kurian, 1955: Agra Univ.J.Res. 4 (I): 85 ff, fig. 70-75 Sulcomesitius duni Móczár 1970b: Acta zool.hung. 16: 411, 423 <j> (after KURIAN'

s figs 70) Specimens examined: none. - Distribution: IIIj. India (KURIAN 1955). Sulcomesitius vietnamensis Móczár, 1977 Sulcomesitius vletnamensis Móczár, 1977: Acta zool.hung. 23: 141, 142, 150 q (f, figs 44-45 p, 1, 46-48 Specimens examined: 1 £, 1 i?Mt.Lang Bian (holotype, allotype) Viet Nam, 2 o" Vientiane (paratypes) and Pleiku (Laos, Viet Nam). - Distribution: Illg Viet Nam and Laos (MÓCZÁR 1977). Sulcomesitius persicus Móczár, 1970 Sulcomesitius persicus Móczár, 1970: Acta biol.Szeged 1_6: 163 £ Specimen examined: 1 c- Escalera (holotype), Persia. - Distribution: IV^. S.W. Iran (MÓCZÁR 1970c), very probably occurs also in UL. S.E.Iran and South-East India. Sulcomesitius menkei sp. n. o_ . - Length 5-6.5 mm. Yellowish red, antennái joints 6-13 excepting light brown lower side, black, abdomen black, propodeum often more reddish, abdominal sternite 1, segments (5)6-7 dark rufous translucent, tibiae more or less brownish. Wings short, reaching to anterior part of tergite 2 or sometimes to to posterior part of tergite 2 (one paratype). Fore wings dark brown infuscated excepting hyaline base and a sharply margined broad hyaline band outside of cells, veins darker brown, posterior part of pterostigma brown, basis hyaline. Body sparsely covered with light hairs. At least posterior margins of tergites (2)3-5 laterally with denser short white hairs. Head slightly longer than broad (fig. 70) including eyes (53 : 50), distinctly broadened behind eyes, lateral sides converging viewed from above (fig. 67), eyes separated from occipital margin by three-quarters eye-length (16 : 19), occipital carina arched (fig. 67); ocelli In a sharp acute angle (fig. 70), hind ocelli separated from each other by a distance about half as long as that between an ocellus and an eye, POL:OOL = 7:13, ocelli with a shallow groove before their outer margins; short frontal sulcus developed just above clypeus; head only weakly shining with dense punctures (fig. 70); eyes very convex, 1.18 times longer than broad (19 : 16), separated from mandibles by hardly shorter distance than two-thirds length of eyes (11 : 12.6); anterior margin of clypeus arcuately protruding and raised into a sharp and high longitudinal keel medially; antennae short, only joints 1-3 elongated, scape slender, longer than joints 2-4 combined, flagellum thickened medially, joints 2-3 about twice longer than broad, 4-5, 7-8 and 10 rectangular, joints 6, 9 broader than long, length (and breadth) proportions of antennái joints 1-13 = 25(7): 9(4): 9(5): 5(5): 5(5): 4(5.5): 6(6): 6(6): 5(6.5): 5(5): 5(4.5): 4(4): 7(4). Pronotum 1.25 times broader in front than long, without collar (35 : 28) (fig. 67), lateral sides slightly concave after obtuse anterior