RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTERINI 67 



Host : Diacrisia obliqua Walker (Arctiidae) (India). Eucosma critica (Eucos- 

 midae) Meyrick, (India). Cirphis unipunctata Haworth (Phalaenidae) (Siam). 

 Margaronia indica Saunders (Pyraustidae) (Ceylon & New Guinea). A gregarious 

 parasite, making white, papery cocoons, loosely heaped together. 



In well preserved specimens, the apical antenna segments have a characteristic 

 shiny, bristly appearance. If these segments are collapsed, they appear longer and 

 due allowance must be made for this. 



A. taragamae can be taken as the typical representative of a complex of indo- 

 oriental species that closely resemble one another. These species are, in fact, some 

 of the most typical members of the ater-group, taragamae itself being very like the 

 palearctic ater. As a complex, they are far removed from the predominantly 

 African metellus-complex though they grade into it through a number of transitional 

 species. 



Apanteles clita sp. n. 



$. Extremely like taragamae , differing from it chiefly in having fine, but distinct transverse 

 aciculation behind the ocelli, a slightly narrower hind wing and the ovipositor considerably 

 thicker (Text-fig. 53). Other differences are as follows: — 



Apical segments of the antenna very slightly more elongate and lacking the shiny, bristly 

 appearance of taragamae. Metacarp a little longer, nearer to six times as long as its distance from 

 the apex of the radial cell. Costula of the propodeum less distinct ; postero-lateral areas with 

 more raised rugosities and hence less outstanding ; propodeum altogether a little longer than in 

 taragamae. 



Tergite 1 relatively longer and narrower. 



Size as in taragamae. 



India : Pusa, Bihar, viii.1935, 8 $$, one the TYPE, ex Sylepta lunalis ; 15. ix. 

 1919, 8 $$, 1 <$, ex Bocchoris artificialis ; United Provinces, Dehra Dun, series ex 

 larva defoliating Vitis vinifera. 



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



Host : Sylepta lunalis Guenee (Pyralidae) ; Bocchoris artificialis Lederer (Pyrali- 

 dae). 



A gregarious species, spinning an elongate, tightly woven mass of cocoons, covered 

 with silk. 



Apanteles metagenes sp. n. 



$. This species is extremely like clita, having fine aciculation behind the ocelli, an ovipositor 

 sheath of similar length and a thickened ovipositor. It differs from taragamae by the same 

 characters as separate clita from taragamae. 



The wings of metagenes are faintly darkened and the stigma is more or less evenly brown ; the 

 venation is pigmented (hardly so in clita) and the setae dark and easy to see. The ovipositor is 

 even thicker than in clita and is a characteristic feature of the species (cf. Text-fig. 53). Costula of 

 the propodeum wanting. 



India : Madras, Nilambur, vii-viii., large series including the TYPE, $, bred 

 from Pyralid larva defoliating Leea. 



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



