6 4 G. E. J. NIXON 



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



It is difficult to say what is characteristic about this species since I know of no 

 other with which it could be readily confused. The narrow cubitellan cell of the 

 hind wing is probably characteristic of a group of species but it certainly helps to 

 distinguish vala from the species included in this synopsis. 



Apanteles fundulus sp. n. 



$. Apart from the characters given in the key, this species differs at once from vala in the 

 shape and sculpture of the ist tergite ; this is very weakly sculptured, almost smooth-looking 

 and with a discrete oval trough on its horizontal part ; and more narrowed behind than in vala 

 (cf. Text-fig. 41) ; tergite 1 is almost coarsely rugose in vala and has no median trough. 



Paler parts of the legs less obscurely yellowish ; hind tibia with only very weak apical 

 infuscation. 



Eyes not convergent. Face highly polished. Preapical segment of the antenna about one 

 and one third times longer than wide. 



Lateral lobe of the mesoscutum showing a narrow, polished zone as in vala. Propodeum duller 

 because of more raised rugosities ; costula faintly indicated. Anterior part of mesopleurum 

 strongly shining, and indistinctly punctate. Inner spur of the hind tibia shorter than in vala, 

 hardly reaching middle of basal tarsal segment. 



Length: 2 mm. without ovipositor, a smaller species than vala. 



Australia : S.E. Queensland, Tambourine Mts., 1-9. v. 1935, 2 $$, one the TYPE, 

 (R. E. Turner) . 

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



Both this species and vala are essentially characterized by the reduction of the 

 gastral setae to a single row on the tergites. A similar reduction occurs in two 

 other species known to me, namely pertiades (Solomons and Fiji) and persephone 

 (W. Australia), both of which come in a different part of the key because of having 

 the ocelli in a lower triangle. It is probable that these four species belong to the 

 same species-complex. 



Apanteles pertiades sp. n. 



$. A dark-legged species with highly polished gaster. Hind femur entirely dark brown ; hind 

 tibia dark brown but pallid on basal quarter ; hind tarsus infuscate throughout. 



Eyes not convergent. Face strongly shining and with only indistinct, superficial punctation. 

 Temples shiny and with superficial rugulosity. Antenna rather thick, slightly shorter than the 

 body ; segments 16—17 square in outline. 



Mesoscutum strongly shining, its punctation sharp and, on the whole, discrete ; almost no 

 longitudinal elements mixed with the large punctures at posterior end of notaulic course. 

 Scutellar disc highly polished, somewhat broad and flattened behind. Anterior part of meso- 

 pleurum very shiny, sharply, discretely punctate. Setae of the median cell long, sparse, widely 

 absent along medius side of cell. Outer side of the hind coxa polished, smooth. Hind spurs 

 rather short, the inner one hardly reaching middle of basal tarsal segment. 



Tergite 1 shiny, coarsely rugose (Text-fig. 43). Ovipositor sheath as long as the hind tibia ; 

 seen from above, clothed with long, upstanding hairs (Text-fig. 62) ; ovipositor rather thick. 



Solomons : 7 $$, one the TYPE, 2 <$<$, ex Tirathaba rufivena (R. A. Lever). 

 N. Guinea : Port Moresby, 1 $, 1 $, ex Tirathaba rufivena (T. H. C. Taylor). 



