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o". The wings without a brown stain behind the stigma ; altogether paler but the stigma 

 remains dark brown. 



Sumatra : Fort de Kock, iv.1921, 10 $$, one the TYPE, 3 <$£, (Jacobson). 

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



Evidently a gregarious parasite, having emerged from white, papery cocoons, 

 loosely heaped together. 



This species is largely characterized by the short, thick ovipositor with its apical 

 constriction. 



Apanteles aper sp. n. 



$. A species with the ocelli in a high triangle and in general appearance not at all typical of 

 the ater-group largely because the intricately rugose propodeum shows nothing of the areolate 

 pattern normally present or at least indicated. 



Hind tibia, like hind femur, rich yellow throughout. 



Head rather large. Scrobes shiny and with aciculation. Face with a dense, conspicuous 

 punctation. Space between a posterior ocellus and the eye-margin shiny and virtually smooth. 

 Antennae broken but 14 segments present in one antenna ; flagellum thin with rather long, 

 upstanding pubescence ; antennal segment 14 fully twice as long as wide. 



Mesoscutum somewhat shiny, its punctation sharp, distinct ; a distinct striate-punctate area 

 at posterior end of notaulic course. Disc of scutellum rather strongly narrowed behind ; 

 polished but with a few large punctures towards sides. Median cell of the fore wing densely 

 setose ; abscissa 1 of the radius rather obliquely placed on the stigma and not at all longer than 

 the transverse cubitus ; metacarp about five times as long as its distance from the apex of the 

 radial cell. Hind coxa smooth except for a small area of close punctation above at base. 



Tergite 1 rather broad, shiny and rugose all over. Ovipositor sheath about three quarters as 

 long as the hind tibia. 



Australia : S.E. Queensland, Tambourine Mts., 18-25^.1935, 1 $, the TYPE, 

 (R. E. Turner). 

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



Apanteles vala sp. n. 



$. Paler parts of the legs obscurely yellowish. 



Eyes not convergent. Face smooth, shiny. Antenna slightly longer than the body ; 

 flagellum thin with the preapical segment about one and a half times longer than wide. 



Lateral lobe of mesoscutum on outer side of broad, densely rugose notaulic band showing, at 

 least on posterior half of mesoscutum, as a polished strip with a few large, scattered punctures ; 

 no conspicuous striate element at posterior end of notaulic course. Disc of scutellum highly 

 polished, weakly convex and with a few, hardly noticeable punctures at each anterior corner. 

 Three posterior surfaces of propodeum indicated by surface being highly polished and almost 

 smooth. An area of fine striate-rugosity extends downwards obliquely into the smooth, pos- 

 terior depression of the mesopleurum from the dorsal groove of the mesopleurum. Median cell 

 of the fore wing with brown, rather sparse setae that tend to be widely absent along the medius 

 side of the cell. Inner spur of the hind tibia rather long and distinctly reaching beyond the 

 middle of the basal tarsal segment. 



Tergite 1 and median field of tergite (2 + 3), (Text-fig. 41). 



Length: ca. 2-7 mm. without ovipositor. 



Australia : S.E. Queensland, Tambourine Mts., 11-17.V.1935, 1 $, the TYPE, 

 (R. E. Turner). 



