RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTERINI 79 



Apanteles townesi sp. n. 



$. This species is related to eriphyle and orns but differs from them in the combination of 

 heavily blackened stigma and an ovipositor sheath that is not longer than the hind tibia. In this 

 combination of characters it approaches closely tigasis with which it may be compared as 

 follows: — 



Hind femur reddish-yellow except for apical infuscation that covers slightly more than distal 

 quarter. Hind tarsus less deeply infuscate. 



Face and clypeus having the same flattened appearance as in tigasis but the punctation of the 

 face finer and more even. Head slightly less transverse and the punctation of the vertex and 

 temples stronger. 



Punctation of mesoscutum stronger, the general surface duller and with clearer indication of 

 microscopic surface sculpture. Disc of scutellum conspicuously punctate around sides. Black 

 setae of the fore wing particularly conspicuous, giving the wing almost a bristly appearance ; 

 these setae are especially conspicuous along the costal margin. Flange beneath the hind tarsus 

 much deeper and more conspicuous than in tigasis. 



Philippines : Negros or., Mt. Canlaon, 29.iv.1953, 1 $, the TYPE, (H. M. & D. 

 Townes). 



Type in Coll. Townes. 



The furrow between the mesocutum and the disc of the scutellum is much wider 

 and deeper in this species than in orits and eriphyle, in which two species it tends to 

 be shallowly foveate rather than costate. A. tigasis has this furrow much as in 

 townesi. 



Apanteles phycodis Viereck 



Apanteles {Apanteles) phycodis Viereck, 1913 : 557. 

 Apanteles phycodis Viereck ; Wilkinson, 1928a : 117. 



$. Hind femur yellow ; hind tibia yellow tipped with infuscation. Wings glass-clear ; 

 setae of the median cell colourless. 



Eyes not convergent. Face dull, closely punctate. Frons above, vertex and temples dull, 

 closely, evenly rugose-punctate to rugose-reticulate. Occiput behind the ocelli with a broad, 

 longitudinal furrow that extends upwards between the ocelli and above is finely, transversely 

 striate. Antenna distinctly shorter than the body, the preapical segment hardly one and a 

 quarter times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum shiny but its punctation strong, almost coarse, with distinct striate-punctation at 

 posterior end of notaulic course. Disc of scutellum coarsely punctate but becoming striate- 

 punctate towards sides. Propodeum with much coarse rugosity ; the areola narrow or even 

 slightly constricted below and formed by very irregular keels ; triangular in outline with its 

 anterior corners subtly prominent ; costula hardly indicated. Mesopleurum with strong, 

 almost discrete punctation all over ; surface of mesopleurum with an unusually large area of 

 pubescence, only a small zone medially against the posterior margin being hairless. First 

 abscissa of the radius rather strongly oblique and forming with the transverse cubitus an even 

 curve ; metacarp nearly four times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 

 Thicker spines along upper part of outer side of hind tibia extremely sparse ; hind tarsal segment 

 4 very short in comparison with segment 5 (Text-fig. 32). 



Tergite 1 large, parallel-sided or even slightly widened behind, its horizontal surface covered 

 with coarse, shiny, rugosity. Ovipositor sheath about one and one third times longer than the 

 hind tibia, with numerous long, upstanding hairs as well as short ones. 



Length: ca. 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



