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more or less complete areolation. Sculpture of anterior part of mesopleurum changing to clear 

 punctation behind. 



Ovipositor sheath about two thirds as long as the hind tibia. 



S. Africa : Pondoland, Port St. John, 16-28.iv.1924, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. 

 Turner). 



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



On the shape of the basal tergites and appearance of the mesoscutum and disc of 

 scutellum, this species is probably fairly closely related to mycerinus but there is no 

 likelihood of confusing it with that species. 



Apanteles adreus sp. n. 



$. Probably fairly closely related to parsodes but abundantly distinct from that species as 

 well as from all others I include in this synopsis. May be compared with parsodes as follows : — 



The legs have the same obscure yellowish brown appearance. 



Frons and vertex smooth as in parsodes but lacking a satin-like sheen. Ocelli smaller, the 

 distance between a posterior ocellus and the eye-margin being fully two and a half times longer 

 than the diameter of the ocellus. Flagellum thick, its pubescence upstanding but dense and 

 hardly bristly. 



Disc of the scutellum decidedly flat, highly polished. Propodeum with very incomplete 

 areolation ; the areola itself defined only below ; no trace of a costula. Anterior part of 

 mesopleurum shiny and feebly rugose-punctate ; sternaulus less sharply discrete, represented by 

 a smooth, broad, oval furrow which above shows some rugose-striation. Venation less dark, the 

 wings more glassy ; stigma a little broader and the metacarp shorter, above five times as long 

 as its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; 1st abscissa of the radius placed almost at right 

 angles to the stigma. Spines along upper edge of outer side of hind tibia finer, less conspicuous 

 and virtually absent on posterior half. 



Tergite 1 a little wider than in parsodes, its horizontal surface shorter but the sculpture essen- 

 tially similar. Ovipositor sheath about one and one third times longer than the hind tibia, 

 clothed with long upstanding hairs (Text-fig. 17). 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, vi.1921, 1 $, the TYPE, x.1921, 1 $, 

 i.1922, 1 $, (R. E. Turner). 



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



A most distinct species on account of the structure of the flagellum. Perhaps 

 related to the Sumatran aglaope though abundantly distinct from that species. 

 Not at all closely related to chalcomelas in spite of having curiously short, thickened 

 antennae like that species. 



Apanteles aglaope sp. n. 



$. Legs brownish ; hind tibia becoming dingy yellowish on basal half. Wings faintly 

 brownish in addition to the sub-stigmal cloud. 



Eyes large but not convergent ; face hence rather small, much smaller than in adreus. 

 Antenna hardly distinguishable from that of adretis. Ocelli in a low triangle, the transverse 

 posterior tangent to the anterior ocellus touching or even slightly cutting the posterior pair. 



Disc of scutellum somewhat convex, shiny, strongly narrowed behind and obscurely punctate 

 towards sides. Posterior, polished part of mesopleurum without delimited sternaulus. Edge of 

 vannal lobe distinctly concave. 



Basal tergites and ovipositor (Text-figs. 64 and 67). 



