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Head narrower in proportion to the width of the thorax. Top of head rugose-punctate. 

 Towards the occipital region, which shows a dull satin-like sheen, the sculpture of the vertex and 

 temples becomes sharp, discrete punctation and the appearance of the head here is very charac- 

 teristic. Face less sharply and less discretely punctate, its surface with an obvious satin-like 

 sheen. 



Mesoscutum less coarsely punctate but much more so than in cocotis. Disc of scutellum much 

 more distinctly punctate. Setae of the median cell slightly denser; metacarp longer, fully seven 

 times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell, as long as in cocotis. Propodeum 

 lacking the short keel behind the spiracle ; the surface is highly polished on each side of the 

 areola. 



Ovipositor sheath not falcate at apex ; ovipositor thicker but not quite so thick nor so much 

 curved as in cocotis. 



Ceylon : Talawakelle, 1933, 3 $$, one the TYPE, ex Homona coffearia, 1 <$, 

 (C. B. R. King). Philippines : Luzon, Mt. Makiling, 1 <J>, {Baker). 

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



Host : Homona coffearia Nietner (Tortricidae) . 



This species, together with rugiceps and cocotis, are very similar in appearance 

 though all are easily separable. The appearance of the back of the head is very 

 characteristic in dotns. This species and rugiceps have the concavity of the vannal 

 lobe deeper than in cocotis. 



Apanteles aristaeus sp. n. 



$. A thick-set, heavily built species with the hind femur entirely blackish ; hind tibia deep 

 reddish yellow with the apical third infuscate. 



Head markedly narrower than the thorax. Face very strongly, sharply punctate. Frons 

 above, vertex and temples strongly thimble-punctate ; around the edge of the highly polished 

 occiput the punctures become very sharply discrete. Antenna a little shorter than the body, 

 thin, rather weak, with the preapical segment about one and a half times longer than wide. 



Scutellar disc highly polished, wide behind and here slightly flattened. Propodeum sharply 

 areolated but rather short with its postero-lateral areas distinctly transverse. Mesopleurum 

 sculptured all over its median convex part, the sculpture changing to fine aciculation within the 

 posterior depression. Wings hyaline ; the hind pair rather broad ; absicssa 1 of the radius 

 almost twice as long as the transverse cubitus and forming a feeble curve with it (as in species of 

 goron-comp\ex) . Hind coxa strongly rugose-punctate on outer face above. 



Tergite 1 very short, subquadrate, its horizontal surface smooth-looking and almost without 

 sculpture. 



o*. Has the stigma extensively pale medially but is sculptured like the female. 



Length: ca. 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



India : Bangalore, 25.iii.1960, 1 $, the TYPE, ex ? Cydia leucostoma on tea ; 

 Assam, v. 1959, 1 $, ex C. leucostoma on tea ; Tocklai Exp. Station, 1957, 1 $, ex 

 C. leucostoma on tea, (G. M. Das). Java : Wonosari Est., 7 $$, 7 <$<$, bred viii.1937 

 from Laspeyresia leucostoma. This series from Java is made up of smaller individ- 

 uals than those from India, the females, without ovipositor, being about 2.7 mm. in 

 length. 



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



Host : Cydia leucostoma Meyrick (Olethreutidae), a pest of tea. 



