7 o G. E. J. NIXON 



$. A very dark-legged species with the hind coxa, hind femur and hind trochaner almost 

 black ; hind tibia equally dark except for a pale basal quarter. 



Eyes not convergent. Face smooth, shining, with faint satin-like sheen. Frons and vertex 

 with some sort of rugosity everywhere ; the rugulosity behind the ocelli shows no transverse 

 elements in the type but there is a faint trace of transverse aciculation in the paratype. Antenna 

 hardly as long as the body, rather thin and with the preapical segment about one and a quarter 

 times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum shiny, rather heavily punctate and with a dull, more coarsely punctate zone at 

 the posterior end of the notaulic course in which there is hardly a trace of longitudinal elements. 

 Disc of scutellum smooth, polished. Propodeum rather short, with the costula more or less 

 distinct, as in taragamae. Anterior part of the mesopleurum shiny, with large, contiguous 

 punctures but towards tegulae simply rugose. Setae of the median cell colourless ; metacarp 

 about four times longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; hind wing rather broad, 

 as in taragamae. 



Tergite i strongly rugose all over (Text-fig. 48). Ovipositor sheath as long as the hind tibia. 



Length: 2-8 mm. without ovipositor. 



Australia : Queensland, Ayr, 15.vi.1949, 2 $$, TYPE and paratype, bred from 

 Earias huegeli (W.A.S.). 



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



Host : Earias huegeli Rogenhoffer (Phalaenidae). 



Largely characterized by the strongly punctate, shiny mesoscutum and the shape 

 of the first tergite. 



Apanteles sauros sp. n. 



$. Hardly distinguishable from oenone, except on colour of hind legs. May be compared 

 with oenone as follows: — 



Hind tibia yellowish on basal half ; segments 2-4 of the hind tarsus dirty whitish yellow as is 

 also the base of segment 1. Face with a trace of blurred punctation on each side above. 

 Antenna thinner and relatively a little longer. Mesoscutum as shiny as in oenone but with a 

 slightly finer punctation. Tergite 1 less strongly sculptured and slightly narrowed behind. 



India : Rawalpindi, 13.fi. 1959, 1 £, the TYPE, ex larva of Zizyphia sp. Prob- 

 ably a solitary parasite. 



I have named as this species two females (Coimbatore, bred from Eucelis sp. 

 (Olethreutidae) on Red Gram, 29. xi. 1936) which agree well with the type female 

 except that the hind leg is not so strikingly bicoloured. 



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

 Host : Zizyphia sp. (Gelechiidae). 



Were it not for its thinner antenna, and differently shaped first tergite, this species 

 would be virtually indistinguishable from taragamae. The dull, sculptured frons and 

 vertex are typical of all the species clustering around taragamae. The vertex behind 

 the ocelli is without any trace of transverse aciculation. 



Apanteles oenone and sauros may be merely local forms of the same species. 



