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sometimes hardly indicated. Metacarp longer than in nycon. 

 Ovipositor sheath as long as the hind tibia. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Somerset East, 1-26.L1921, 1 $, the TYPE, x & xi. 

 1930, 2 $$ ; Pondoland, Port St. John, x & xii, 2 $$, (all R. E. Turner). 

 Type in British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Apanteles antilla sp. n. 



$. Closely resembles nycon in the sculpture of the mesoscutum and of the disc of the scutellum. 

 It differs from nycon in not having convergent eyes and may be further compared with that 

 species as follows: — 



As in nycon, the frons and that part of the vertex between the posterior ocellus and the eye- 

 margin are smooth, shining. Ocelli smaller and in a higher triangle, the posterior transverse 

 tangent to the anterior ocellus passing clearly in front of the posterior ocelli. Although the 

 antenna is broken, the fourteen existing segments indicate clearly that it is longer and thinner 

 than in nycon. 



Disc of scutellum closely punctate-reticulate. Both fore and hind wing narrower, decidedly 

 brownish, median cell of fore wing densely setose ; 1st abscissa of the radius hardly longer than 

 the transverse cubitus, the two veins strongly angled at their junction ; metacarp slightly longer 

 than in nycon, the radial cell itself being longer and more narrow. 



Tergite 1 dull, densely rugose all over, without indication of a longitudinal depression on its 

 horizontal part. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Swellendam, xi. 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. Turner). 

 Type in British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



This species has the hind leg long and thin ; the hind tarsus appears particularly 

 thin, partly because, in profile, the keel beneath the segments is hardly visible. 



Apanteles anatole sp. n. 



$. A species with short first abscissa of radius and because of this, together with the dull, 

 strongly rugose mesoscutum in whose sculpture no longitudinal elements occur at posterior end 

 of notaulic course, probably more closely related to nycon, inaron and antilla than to the species 

 clustering around metellus. It differs from the first three mentioned species in having a much 

 longer ovipositor. 



Hind femur in greater part yellow, with infuscation at apex above (Somerset East) or infuscate 

 all over upper surface (Milnerton). 



Eyes hardly convergent below (Text-fig. 23). Face with superficial punctation. Frons and 

 vertex faintly dull ; space between posterior ocellus and eye-margin faintly roughened and with 

 a satin-like sheen. Antenna about as long as the body with the preapical segment fully one and 

 one third times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum dull, densely rugose-punctate ; notaulic courses broadening behind to form two 

 large, still duller patches that virtually unite. Propodeum thickly covered with rugae but the 

 costula not defined. Hind coxa extremely finely roughened on outer side with a satin-like sheen ; 

 above with close rugose-punctation. Wings hyaline ; vannal lobe not in the least concave 

 beyond its widest part and here with an occasional projecting hair. 



Tergite 1 rather short and broad, much more like that of inaron than that of nycon and antilla 

 (Text-fig. 33) ; its horizontal part with an ill defined longitudinal furrow. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Somerset East, x.1930, 4 $$, one the TYPE, (R. E. 

 Turner) ; Milnerton, 14-28. xii. 1925, 2 $$, (R.E.T.). 



