RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 77 



Java (type locality). Malaya : I. of Penang, 1 $, (Baker). 

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



Host : Recorded by Wilkinson as having been bred from Araecerus fasciculatus 

 de Geer (Coleoptera, Anthribidae). This host needs verification. 



The appearance of the mesoscutum is somewhat characteristic and this, in com- 

 bination with the shape of the first tergite and long, thin ovipositor, makes the species 

 distinctive. I know of no species with which araeceri could easily be confused 

 though it shows some affinity with the following species, chloris. 



Apanteles chloris sp. n. 



$. Hind coxa brown, becoming yellowish at tip ; hind femur entirely yellow ; hind tibia 

 yellow with infuscate tip. Stigma evenly brown. 



Head in a facial view somewhat transverse. Face itself transverse, dull, densely, rather 

 shallowly punctate. Vertex between the ocelli and the eye-margin, and the temples, faintly 

 shiny, almost with satin-like sheen ; weakly punctate to rugose-punctate. Antenna about as 

 long as the body, rather thin, with the preapical segment fully one and a half times longer than 

 wide. 



Mesoscutum closely, densely punctate ; the sculpture has an even appearance and there is 

 hardly a trace of longitudinal elements at the posterior end of the imaginary course of the 

 notaulices. Disc of scutellum shiny, strongly narrowed behind and with scattered punctures of 

 irregular shape. Propodeum dull, rugose, with areola but without clearly indicated costula. 

 Spines of the outer side of the hind tibia sparse, fine. 



Tergite 1 about one and a third times longer than its medial width, hardly narrowed behind ; 

 virtually no furrow on its posterior horizontal part which is dull and rather finely rugose (Text- 

 fig. 79). Ovipositor sheath very slightly longer than the hind tibia, its hairs not at all upstanding. 



Length: ca. 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



Philippines : Mindanao, Surigao, 2 $$, one the TYPE, (Baker). 

 Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



This species has much in common with araeceri, resembling that species in the 

 sculpture of the propodeum and the shape of the basal tergites. It differs from 

 araeceri at once in having a shorter ovipositor sheath, more evenly sculptured meso- 

 scutum and longer apical flagellar segments. 



Apanteles tulis sp. n. 



$. Hind tibia becoming paler on about basal third ; hind tarsus infuscate more or less 

 throughout. Wings hardly hyaline, the setae brownish. 



Eyes not convergent. Face shiny with a satin-like sheen. Frons and vertex with satin-like 

 sheen. Temples almost rugose-punctate. Antenna broken but to judge from the ten existing 

 segments, probably not much shorter than the body. Disc of scutellum polished, moderately 

 wide behind. Costula of the propodeum very faintly indicated, the area posterior to it highly 

 shining, almost polished, as is also the areola. Metacarp between four and five times as long as 

 its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 



Ovipositor sheath about one and one third times longer than the hind tibia, its hairs even in 

 length and at least on basal two thirds, semi-erect. 



Length: ca. 2-6 mm. without ovipositor. 



