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Apanteles rugiceps Wilkinson 



Apanteles rugiceps Wilkinson, 1934a : 148. 



$. Legs, excluding the coxae, bright reddish yellow. 



Face strongly, very distinctly punctate. Frons above, vertex and temples strongly, coarsely 

 rugose-punctate. Occipital region highly polished. Antenna about as long as the body with 

 the preapical segment about one and third times longer than wide. 



Disc of scutellum polished, smooth, except for a few punctures along sides. Propodeum with 

 much reduced areolation ; no trace of a costula but there is a short, oblique keel behind the 

 spiracle. Segment 4 of the hind tarsus not noticeably shorter than segment 5. Hind wing rather 

 narrow ; metacarp hardly five times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 



Tergite 1 markedly narrowed apically, smooth-looking but dull with vague rugulosities and 

 scattered punctures. Ovipositor sheath about one and a quarter times longer than the hind tibia, 

 markedly falcate at apex as is also the thin ovipositor ; the sheaths of the ovipositor are clothed 

 with extremely short, more or less adpressed hairs. 



Length: ca. 28 mm. without ovipositor. 



India : Assam. 



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



This species seems to be characterized by the strongly sculptured head in combina- 

 tion with the bright yellow legs. Otherwise there is nothing particularly distinctive 

 about it. 



Apanteles cocotis Wilkinson 



Apanteles cocotis Wilkinson, 1934a : 152. 



$. Hind femur reddish yellow ; hind tibia reddish yellow, with faint infuscation at tip. 



Face shiny, virtually smooth. Top of head, including temples, very shiny, almost smooth. 

 The highly polished occipital region reaches as far as the ocelli. Antenna about as long as the 

 body, with the preapical segment one and one third times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum shiny, its punctation, on the whole, fine. Areolation of the propodeum not 

 strong ; costula weak and in some specimens more or less absent. Median cell of the fore wing 

 densely pubescent all over ; metacarp very long, fully seven times as long as its distance from the 

 apex of the radial cell ; abscissa 1 of the radius somewhat obliquely placed on the stigma and a 

 well marked angle between it and the transverse cubitus. Basal tergites (Text-fig. 44). 



Ovipositor rather thick. 



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



Java : Buitenzorg. 



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



Host : Said to have been bred from male coconut flowers. 



A distinctive species on the combination of dark wings and densely spinose hind 

 tibia. Related to the species of the tamgamae-complex, though differing widely 

 from most of these on wing characters. 



Apanteles dotus sp. n. 



$. A species related to rugiceps and intermediate between this species and cocotis. May be 

 compared with rugiceps as follows : — 



Hind femur entirely infuscate ; hind tibia becoming paler on basal third. Wings faintly 

 brownish. 



