NO. 2252. NEW AFRICAN PARASITIC EYMENOPTERA—QAHAN. 589 



Six female specimens received by the Bureau of Entomology from 

 Mr. C. C. Gowdey, and on his authority reared from the above- 

 named host. 



APANTELES UGANDAENSIS. new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.2 mm. Black ; mouthparts, scape, pedicel, three 

 or four basal flagellar joints, tegulae, and the legs except the hind 

 coxae pale testaceous, the apex of hind tibiae and their tarsi slightly 

 inf uscated ; ventral abdominal segments one and two also testaceous ; 

 wings hyaline, stigma and costa dark brown, the other veins paler. 

 Head smooth or nearly so, with obscure punctures on the face; face 

 rather narrow, the greatest distance between the eyes below the 

 antennae very slightly less than the distance from the base of antennae 

 to clypeus; antennae shorter than the body, the first flagellar joint 

 about two and one-half times as long as thick, second to the sixth 

 joints each about one and one-half times as long as thick, joints be- 

 yond the sixth to the apex slightly shorter, the apical four or five 

 joints more or less pedicellate; malar space not greater than the 

 width of a mandible at base; thorax for the most part impunctate, 

 the mesoscutum anteriorly and the pleura anteriorly, with some very 

 weak punctures ; propodeum polished without a median carina ; hind 

 coxae with some obscure punctures along the upper side; transverse 

 part of discoideus distinct; abdomen about equal to the thorax in 

 length, smooth, polished throughout, distinctly narrower than the 

 thorax, first tergite about twice as long as broad at base, slightly 

 broader at base than apex ; second tergite with an oblique furrow each 

 side extending from the lateral angles of the first tergite backward 

 and toward but not reaching the lateral margins ; ovipositor not ex- 

 tending beyond the apex of abdomen. 



Male. — Unknown. 

 ■ Type-locality. — Kampala, Uganda, British East Africa. 



Type.— C?it. No. 21600, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — A Pyralid on Hibiscus. 



Four females received by the Bureau of Entomology from Mr. 

 C. C. Gowdey. 



APANTELES GOWDEYI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Black; palpi and scape beneath pallid; 

 coxae all black; anterior and median femora, tibiae, and tarsi and 

 the posterior femora and tibiae, except apex of latter, pale testaceous ; 

 apex of hind tibiae and their tarsi brownish black; abdomen black, 

 except ventral segments one and two, which are concolorous with the 

 legs; wings hyaline, the costal and radial veins and stigma dark 

 brown, other veins paler. Head smooth, with very obscure weak 

 punctures on the face and posterior orbits; distance from the an- 

 tennae to the base of clypeus not more than two-thirds the shortest 



