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An extremely distinctive species. I know of no other with which it could be con- 

 fused. 



Apanteles agamedes sp. n. 



$. Hind tarsus dark brown with the basal segment white at base. 



Eyes virtually not convergent. Face with a fine but quite distinct punctation. Antenna 

 almost as long as the body, rather thin and with the preapical segment fully one and one third 

 times longer than wide. Vertex between the posterior ocellus and the eye-margin faintly dull 

 and with fine punctation. 



Mesoscutum dull rather than shiny, its punctation very sharply discrete ; at posterior end of 

 notaulic course, the punctures become larger but there is virtually no trace of longitudinal 

 elements. Stigma pallid on nearly basal half ; hind wing (Text-fig. 19). 



Tergite 1 densely rugose all over and without trace of a longitudinal furrow on its horizontal 

 part. Median field of tergite (2 + 3) as strongly rugose as tergite 1 ; tergite (2 -f 3) beyond the 

 median field with a pale spot at each anterior corner. Ovipositor sheath about one and a third 

 times longer than the hind tibia, clothed only with very short hairs. 



Length: 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



Mauritius : iii.1951, 2 $$, one the TYPE, bred from Phycita sp. on Lantana, 

 (S. Felix) ; Reduit, 20. xi. 1944, 1 $, labelled " ex Carot ", (A. Moutia). 

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



Host : Phycita sp. (Pyralidae). 



On account of the fringed vannal lobe, the shape and sculpture of the first tergite 

 and the subtle nature of the mesoscutal punctation, this species must be regarded 

 as aberrant within the ater-group s.l. and in many respects has more in common, 

 perhaps, with certain members of the ultor-gxowp, as represented by a number of 

 species known to me from S. Africa and so far undescribed. The species of the ultor- 

 group, however, all tend to have the postero-lateral areas of the propodeum decidedly 

 transverse whereas in agamedes these areas are as long as wide. The edge of the 

 vannal lobe in agamedes is quite straight beyond its widest part ; in the idtor-group, 

 this edge tends to be evenly convex and the cubitellan cell is longer. 



Apanteles vacillans sp. n. 



$. Hind femur reddish with an extremely faint trace of apical infuscation ; hind tibia reddish 

 yellow tipped with infuscation ; hind tarsus infuscate throughout. 



Eyes large, not convergent but close together on the face, much as in erse, (cf. Text-fig. 71). 

 Head from above (Text-fig. 82). Distance between posterior ocellus and eye-margin less than 

 twice the longer diameter of the ocellus. Face shiny, weakly punctate. Vertex between ocelli 

 and eye-margin shiny and with only faint trace of punctation. Antenna about as long as the 

 body, thick and with the preapical segment about one and a quarter times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum characteristically sculptured, highly polished along the middle with the punctures 

 fading out ; on posterior half of middle lobe the smooth area becomes more extensive ; posterior 

 end of notaulic course marked by a zone of striate-punctation. Disc of scutellum highly 

 polished and strongly narrowed behind. Propodeum rather short but completely, strongly 

 areolated, its various fields shiny and smooth-looking. Metacarp very long, almost closing the 

 radial cell (Text-fig. 81) ; 1st abscissa of the radius very obliquely placed on the evenly dark 

 brown stigma. Hind femur rather thick ; spines along upper edge of hind tibiae very numerous, 

 close. 



