50 G. E. J. NIXON 



Propodeum rather long (Text-fig. 52) ; its areolation on the whole sharp, distinct, the three 

 fields strongly shining and smooth-looking. Anterior part of mesopleurum with coarse rugosity. 

 Median cell with long, sparse setae ; stigma pale medially but not strikingly pellucid ; hind wing 

 rather broad. 



Tergite 1 hardly narrowed behind, its horizontal part with broad, ill defined, almost smooth 

 trough ; elsewhere with vague, coarse, shiny striation. Ovipositor sheath very slightly shorter 

 than the hind tibia ; ovipositor rather thick (Text-fig. 50). 



Length: 2-5 mm. without ovipositor. 



China : Canton, 15 $$, one the TYPE, 2 $$, (W. E. Hoffman). 

 Type in British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Characterized essentially by the coarse sculpture of the top of the head and of the 

 mesoscutum. In all other respects the species is extremely like salutifer to which it 

 is naturally related. 



Apanteles abdera sp. n. 



$. Hind coxa and hind femur entirely dark ; hind tibia darkened on rather more than apical 

 half ; hind tarsus infuscate throughout ; hind trochanter yellow. 



Head rather deep from back to front ; temples with only very feeble rugosity ; vertex between 

 the posterior ocellus and eye-margin smooth except for satin-like sheen. Face smooth, shining, 

 with hardly a trace of punctation. Antenna as long as the body ; segment 17 about one and 

 one third times longer than wide ; flagellum slightly thickened towards apex. 



Mesoscutum densely punctate ; the punctures, on the whole, large and sharply defined, with 

 the usual crowding along the course of the notaulices ; at posterior end of nataulic course, the 

 surface is rather finely striate-punctate. Disc of scutellum smooth, shining, virtually unsculp- 

 tured. Areolation of propodeum strong, complete. Hind coxa markedly rugose on outer face. 

 Metacarp hardly more than four times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; 

 hind wing narrow. 



Ovipositor sheath slightly shorter than the hind tibia ; seen from above, its hairs long and 

 upstanding. 



Length: ca. 2-6 mm. without ovipositor. 



Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, ix.1924, TYPE $, (R. E. Turner), 52 other 

 females from Mossel Bay. Three females (Natal, Transkei, Umtata ; Pondo- 

 land, Port St. John) agree with the Mossel Bay material except that the median 

 field of tergite (2 + 3) is slightly less transverse in the Port St. John specimens. 



Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Apanteles metellus sp. n. 



$. Closely related to abdera and like that species having outer side of hind coxa considerably 

 rugose. May be compared with abdera as follows: — 



Eyes markedly convergent (Text-fig. 24). 



Apart from having the legs much more brightly coloured, the antennal scape is also in greater 

 part yellowish. 



Mesoscutum duller, its punctation finer, especially on each side of the middle line. Disc of 

 scutellum with distinct traces of punctation, especially along sides. Wings glassy clear ; abscissa 

 1 of the radius less obliquely placed on the stigma and slightly longer in proportion to the length 

 of the first transverse cubitus. 



Hairy part of ovipositor sheath hardly more than two thirds as long as the hind tibia. 



