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Mesoscutum rather dull and altogether with finer sculpture than in metellus. Disc of scutellum 

 somewhat dull and superficially punctate-rugose. The blackened hind coxa is markedly rough- 

 ened on outer side ; hind spurs strong, with the inner one almost twice as long as the outer one. 



Tergite 1 hardly narrowed behind. Median field of tergite (2 + 3) about four times as wide as 

 long. 



Length: ca. 28 mm. without ovipositor. 



Africa : Kenya, Kiambu, 2 $$, one the TYPE, 2 <$£, bred 20.xii.1930, from 

 Odites artigena (R. H. Le Pelley) ; Ruiri, Komassie Est., 3 $$, 4 <$$, v. 1957, (D. I. 

 McCrae). 



Type in British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Host : Odites artigena Meyrick (Xylorictidae) . 



Apanteles nycon sp. n. 



9- Legs on the whole dark ; hind coxa, hind and middle femur, deeply infuscate ; hind tibia 

 becoming dull reddish yellow on basal half. 



Eyes very strongly convergent below, more so than in metellus (cf. Text-fig. 24). Face some- 

 what dull, with superficial punctation. Antenna almost as long as the body, rather thin and 

 with the preapical segment about one and one third times longer than wide. Frons and vertex 

 between the posterior ocellus and the eye-margin almost polished. 



Mesoscutum dull, coarsely punctate-rugose. Middle field of side of pronotum dull, scaly- 

 reticulate. Posterior part of mesopleurum almost everywhere with very fine aciculation. 

 Metacarp rather short, about three and a half times as long as its distance from the apex of the 

 radial cell. 



Tergite 1 slightly widened behind, coarsely, densely rugose. Median field of tergite (2 + 3) 

 about three times as wide as long. Ovipositor sheath almost as long as the hind tibia. 



Length: 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, George, 15 — 17.xi.1921, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. 

 Turner) . 



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



A very distinctive species, characterized by the heavily punctate disc of the 

 scutellum combined with the obliquely placed first abscissa of the radius. Closest 

 to antilla from which it differs in having convergent eyes. 



Apanteles inaron sp. n. 



$. Having convergent eyes, this species may be compared with nycon, from which it differs as 

 follows : — 



Legs darker, the whole of the hind leg deeply infuscate except that the hind tibia is pale at 

 extreme base. 



Frons and vertex dull, finely rugose, the space between the posterior ocellus and the eye-margin 

 not at all shining. Face smooth. Eyes slightly less convergent and not impressed on each side 

 of clypeus at lowest point of eye (rather a feature of nycon). Antenna slightly thinner with the 

 preapical segment about one and a half times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum more finely, densely sculptured, the notaulic bands so much widened, that on 

 posterior half of mesoscutum they unite to form a very large, characteristically dull area. 

 Propodeum densely rugose but the areolation tending to lack definition and the costula 



