RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 75 



other species of the ater-group though I do not exclude the possibility of having 

 overlooked such a spine. It occurs frequently in species belonging to other groups 

 of Apanteles. 



Dr. V. Tobias of Leningrad has kindly presented the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) 

 with a series of three females and one male which I consider to be ater, though the 

 specimens differ from the W. European examples in having the stigma pellucid, that 

 is, whitish with a darker border, such as occurs in the European xanthostigma Haliday ; 

 xanthostigma, however, lacks the spine on the front tarsus. The three Russian fe- 

 males were bred gregariously from Cacoecia xylosteana L. 



In most respects ater is closely related to the species I refer to as the taragamae- 

 complex. 



Apanteles galleriae Wilkinson 

 Apanteles galleriae Wilkinson, 1932a : 139. 



As pointed out by Wilkinson, this species is very close to his tirathabae. The main 

 differences have been given in couplet 119 of the key. 



$. Legs, on the whole, redder, the hind coxa being distinctly reddish brown. 



Face slightly more transverse but equally shiny. At the posterior end of the notaulic course is 

 a small zone of dull, rugose-punctation in which there are no obvious longitudinal elements (quite 

 different from tirathabae). Stigma (Text-fig. 66). 



Europe. India : Bangalore, 1 $, (with hind coxa almost black). 



Host : Galleria mellonella L. (Galleriidae). 



Both this species and tirathabae have the stigma unusually broad and the hind 

 tibia densely spinose. 



Apanteles carpatus (Say) 



Microgaster carpata Say, 1836-37 : 263. 

 Apanteles carpatus (Say) Muesebeck, 1920 : 515. 



This species is somewhat aberrant within the ater-group s.l. on account of the shape 

 of tergite 1 (Text-fig. 59) and the presence of the extra propodeal keel (Text-fig. 61). 



$. Hind femur varying from yellowish- or reddish-brown to almost black. 



Antenna segments 15-17 almost square in outline. 



Costula of the propodeum weak to absent. Outer, upper surface of hind coxa dull, strongly 

 rugose ; spines of outer side of hind tibia numerous but blunt. Stigma broad (Text-fig. 1). 



Tergite 1 sometimes distinctly widened behind. 



Cosmopolitan. 



Host : Tinea pellionella L. and Trichophaga tapetzella L. (both hosts recorded for 

 U.S.A. by Muesebeck, 1920), Tineola biselliella Hiibner, Tinea fuscipunctella Haworth, 

 (Tineidae). 



This species could be confused with piceoventris but this last has no extra pro- 

 podeal keel, a narrower first tergite and a differently shaped vannal lobe. 



