RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 59 



Apanteles syleptae Ferriere 



Apanteles syleptae Ferriere, 1925, in Vayssiere & Mimeur : 261. 

 Apanteles syleptae Ferriere ; Wilkinson, 1932 : 318. 



$. This is a species with glass-clear wings and the venation proximal to the areolet colour- 

 less with the setae of the median cell equally colourless. Having a rather broad hind wing it 

 comes close to faustina, from which it differs chiefly in having a shorter ovipositor. 



Face smooth, polished, with satin-like sheen, as in faustina. 



Mesoscutum and disc of scutellum as in faustina. Hind coxa shiny but with rugosity and 

 some striation on outer side but lacking the satin-like sheen of faustina (this difference may be of 

 little value). 



Africa : Tanganyika ; Kenya ; Gold Coast ; Nigeria. 

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



Host : Sylepta derogata Fab. (Pyraustidae). 



Having a certain amount of fine striation at posterior end of the notaulic courses, 

 this species is different from hemara, from which species it otherwise differs by the 

 same characters as separate faustina from hemara. 



Apanteles isander sp. n. 



$. A rather large, (ca. 3-3 mm. without ovipositor), dark-legged species with entirely blackish 

 gaster. 



Eyes not convergent below. Face smooth but dull owing to a rather intense, satin-like sheen. 

 Vertex between the posterior ocellus and the eye-margin faintly dull and rugulose. Scrobes with 

 fine concentric aciculation. The head is more transverse than in metellus and its close allies. 

 Antenna rather short with the preapical segment hardly longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum dull, densely, rather finely punctate. Notaulic course showing as a dull band that 

 posteriorly widens but does not show longitudinal elements. Rugosity of mesopleurum changing 

 to fine aciculation posteriorly ; this aciculation covers most of what is normally a polished sur- 

 face. Propodeum with strongly delimited, almost polished areola but without distinct costula. 

 Spines along upper part of outer side of hind tibia short and stubby and sharply differentiated 

 from the finer spines adjacent to them. 



Tergite 1 dull, finely, densely and on the whole very evenly rugose ; median field of tergite 

 (2 + 3) strongly transverse (Text-fig. 35). 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, x.1921, 8 $$, one the TYPE, (R. 

 E. Turner), 7-14.xi.1921, 2 $$, (R.E.T.). 

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



Apanteles raesus sp. n. 



$. A smaller, more delicately built species than isander from which it differs by little more 

 than the characters given in the key. 



Frons and vertex more finely sculptured, almost smooth and polished except for satin-like 

 sheen. Scrobes with hardly a trace of aciculation. Antenna thinner ; characteristically thin 

 with the preapical segment nearer to one and half times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum less dull, the punctate element of its sculpture much more in evidence. Pro- 

 podeum with fewer raised rugae but the costula distinct. Wings narrower ; medial cell of the 

 fore wing very densely and finely setose. Thicker spines on outer side of hind tibia sparser but 

 longer and more pointed. 



