RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 85 



Philippines : Benaue, Mt. Prov. 31.xii.1943, 1 $, the TYPE, (H. K. & D. 

 Townes) . 



Type in Coll. Townes. 



Apanteles coretas sp. n. 



$. Distinct on account of the clearly fringed vannal lobe. Hind femur bright yellow but the 

 hind coxa deeply infuscate throughout. Wings very noticeably brownish ; stigma yellowish 

 brown. 



Top of head, including temples, highly polished and in very sharp contrast with the closely 

 punctate, but shiny mesoscutum. At posterior end of notaulic course, the punctures become 

 large and somewhat separated but there is no trace of longitudinal elements. Propodeum very 

 strongly, almost coarsely areolated ; the strength of the areolation of the propodeum reminds 

 more of the species of the metellus-complex than those clustering around saravus. Metacarp 

 about five times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 



Ovipositor sheath slightly longer than the hind tibia. 



New Hebrides : Santo, viii-ix.1929, 1 $, the TYPE, (L. E. Cheesman). 

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



Apanteles argiope sp. n. 



$. This is an aberrant member of the metellus-complex of species and is essentially charac- 

 terized by the short metacarp in combination with the form of the vannal lobe ; beyond its 

 widest part, the vannal lobe has a virtually straight edge with sparse projecting hairs along 

 almost its entire length. 



Legs on the whole dark with the hind femur brown throughout ; hind tibia becoming yellowish 

 brown on about basal third. Wings markedly brownish. 



Face shiny but distinctly, densely punctate. Antenna rather short, the preapical segment 

 hardly longer than wide. 



Disc of scutellum shiny and almost impunctate. Propodeum very coarsely rugose, the areola 

 deep, large ; costula irregular and not always clearly defined. Abscissa 1 of the radius leaving 

 stigma markedly distal to middle and very obliquely placed on the stigma (Text-fig. 31). 



Gaster thickly pubescent. Tergites 1 and (2 + 3), (Text-fig. 38). Ovipositor sheath as long 

 as the hind tibia. 



Length: ca. 2-8 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, numerous examples, all females, one the TYPE, 

 Mossel Bay, io.i.1939, (R. E. Turner). Australia : S.E. Queensland, Tambourine 

 Mts., 1 $, (this female has about basal two thirds of hind femur reddish yellow). 

 Malaya : Kuala Lumpur, 1 $ ; Singapore, 1 $, I. of Penang, 1 $. Celebes. 

 Fiji Is : Tonga, 2 $$, one ex Crocidolonia sp. New Hebrides. Philippines : 

 Luzon, Mt. Makiling, 3 <j>$, 7 <J<J. 



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



The African examples seem to have the metacarp slightly shorter in relation to its 

 distance from the apex of the radial cell than the Indo-Australian specimens. 



Apanteles dryas sp. n. 



$. In having a weakly fringed vannal lobe and in the shape of the head, the sculpture of the 

 mesoscutum and propodeum, this species is rather closely related to argiope. It differs from 

 argiope as follows: — 



