82 G. E. J. NIXON 



preapical segment hardly one and a quarter times longer than wide ; this segment is nearer to one 

 and half times longer than wide in saravus. 



Punctation of mesoscutum tending to fade out posteriorly but the punctures on posterior half 

 larger and further apart than those in front ; no trace of striate-punctation at posterior end of 

 notaulic course. Mesopleurum with distinctly discrete sternaulus, faintly roughened ; in 

 saravus, this part shows merely the normal depression. 



Ovipositor sheath about one and a quarter times longer than the hind tibia, the hairs upstand- 

 ing and not quite so long as in saravus (cf. Text-fig. 57). 



Borneo : Sandakan, 1 $, the TYPE, [Baker). 

 Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



Apanteles pisenor sp. n. 



$. The main differences between this species and stenotelas have been indicated in the key. 

 The difference in the punctation of the mesoscutum is striking and on this character alone, 

 confusion between the two species is unlikely. 



The antennae of the single specimen of pisenor art broken but the 15 segments existing in the 

 right antenna indicate that the antenna is fully as long as the body, very slightly thickened 

 towards apex and with segment 15 virtually square in outline. 



Length: ca. 2-3 mm. without ovipositor. 



New Hebrides : Banks I., Vanua Lava, x.1929, 1 $, the TYPE, (L. E. Cheesman). 

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



This species is also very like usipetes but the eyes are further apart, the punctation 

 of the mesoscutum is closer and tergite 1 is only slightly narrowed behind. In usipetes, 

 tergite 1 is rather strongly narrowed behind and the median field of tergite (2 + 3) is 

 less transverse than in pisenor. 



Apanteles stenotelas sp. n. 



$. A most distinctive species on account of its small size combined with the large markedly 

 discrete punctures of the mesoscutum. 



Head from in front (Text-fig. 34). Hind wing narrower than in the allied species (cf. Text-fig. 



15). 



Length: ca. 19 mm. without ovipositor. 



New Hebrides : Espiritu Santo, 2 $$, one the TYPE, 5 <$<$, bred from Hymenia 

 recurvalis, (R. A. Lever). 



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



Host : Hymenia recurvalis F. (Pyralidae). 



Apanteles piceoventris Muesebeck 



Urogaster solitarius Ashmead, 1900, [nee Ratzeburg, 1844] : 287 [n. n.]. 

 Apanteles piceoventris Muesebeck, 1920 : 515. 



$. Rather far removed from the preceding species {saravus, usipetes, pisenor, stenotelas) and 

 subtly distinctive with its rather short, decidedly thick antenna and deep, rugose, sharply 

 discrete sternaulus. 



