RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTERINI 9 



As a source of systematic affinities the gaster is notoriously unreliable and in 

 almost all the subfamilies of the Braconidae it is possible to find examples in which 

 tergites 1 and (2 + 3) have become fused, enlarged and heavily, rugosely sculptured. 



I have not made an exhaustive comparison of Adelius with the Cheloninae but 

 apart from subtle resemblances in facies, not easily put into words, Adelius has the 



Figs. 2-4. Wings, $: 2, Adelius subfasciatus Haliday; 3, Paroligoneiiriis sp., near 

 wittei de Saeger; 4, Mirax leucopterae Wilkinson. 



