RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 55 



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



On shape of basal tergites and absence of complete propodeal areolation most 

 closely related to inaron but differing strikingly from that species by having non- 

 convergent eyes. In inaron, the vannal lobe beyond its widest part is almost as 

 straight as in anatole but the wing edge here never shows the occasional projecting 

 hair as does anatole. This difference should be accepted with caution. The rugose 

 sternaulus is an important secondary character for recognising anatole. 



Apanteles racilla sp. n. 



?. Hind femur bright reddish yellow with the faintest touch of infuscation at apex above ; 

 hind tibia reddish yellow but tipped with infuscation. 



Eyes not noticeably convergent below. Face with superficial but fairly distinct punctation. 

 Frons with some fine rugosity (fine aciculation encircling scrobes) ; space between posterior 

 ocellus and eye-margin almost smooth. 



Sculpture of mesoscutum much as in anatole but more clearly punctate with faint indication of 

 longitudinal elements at posterior end of notaulic course. Disc of scutellum flat, weakly punctate 

 but the punctures closer towards sides. Propodeum densely covered with rugae but the costula 

 not clearly defined. Wings glass-clear ; setae of median and submedian cells sparse, colourless 

 and widely absent along medius side of cells. Hind coxa dull with satin-like sheen and fine 

 punctures along upper edge. 



Tergite 1 large, subquadrate (Text-fig. 29). Median field of tergite (2 + 3) very strongly 

 transverse and only about one quarter as long as the rest of the tergite beyond it. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Matjesfontein, 14-27. xi. 1928, 1 $, the TYPE, 1-18. 

 xii.1928, 1 $, (R. E. Turner). 



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



Largely characterized by the shape of the median field of tergite (2 + 3) ; this 

 field is more transverse than in any other African species known to me. Among the 

 oriental species, both cypris and cyprioides have the basal tergites showing an app- 

 roach to the shape occuring in racilla but both these species have a distinctly concave 

 vannal lobe, complete propodeal areolation and much shorter ovipositor. Their 

 relationship with racilla is probably not very close. 



Apanteles rutilans sp. n. 



$. Here is a species with legs coloured as in racilla except that the hind tibia is rather more 

 extensively infuscate at tip. 



Eyes not convergent. Face dull, conspicuously punctate, almost rugose-punctate. The 

 thimble-punctation of the vertex and temples is very strong and in sharp contrast with the semi- 

 circular dorsal intrusion of the faintly dull, but smooth occiput. The antennal scrobes are 

 sharply separated from the dull, punctate frons by being abruptly deeper and filled with shiny, 

 concentric aciculation. 



Disc of scutellum faintly dull and indistinctly punctate, the punctures larger towards front and 

 sides. Mesopleurum with distinct, rugose sternaulus. Hind coxa dull, with satin-like sheen ; 

 its outer, upper face densely punctate. Setae of the fore wing darkened. 



Tergite 1 and (2 + 3), (Text-fig. 37). 



E. Africa : Naivasha, vii.1936, 1 $, the TYPE, (H. J. A. Turner). 



