96 G. E. J. NIXON 



A most distinctive species, easily recognised by the shape of the first gastral tergite 

 in combination with the small, characteristically sculptured head. 



Apanteles ippeus sp. n. 



9- A dark-legged species with the hind tibia pale only on basal third and the hind tarsus 

 blackened throughout. Wings hyaline with the stigma evenly brown and the setae of the median 

 cell rather sparse and colourless. 



Face shining and with only the merest trace of punctation. Frons above and vertex between 

 ocellus and eye-margin shining, smooth. Temples rugose and contrasting sharply with the highly 

 polished occipital region. Posterior ocelli far apart, the distance between them greater than that 

 between one of them and the eye-margin, 10 : 7. Antenna a little shorter than the body with 

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



Disc of scutellum polished and with faint trace of punctation. Areolation of propodeum 

 completely wanting, the areola hardly indicated and no trace of a costula ; general surface of 

 propodeum shiny, weakly rugose. Hind tarsus slender. 



Tergite 1 (Text-fig. 90), its horizontal surface with a satin-like sheen and with feeble rugosity. 

 Ovipositor sheath about three quarters as long as the hind tibia, clothed with long upstanding 

 hairs. 



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



Australia : Canberra, 10 9$, one the TYPE, 7 <$<$, bred from Plutella maculi- 

 pennis, (F. Wilson). 



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



Host : Plutella maculipennis Curtis (Hyponomeutidae). 



Very distinct on the shortness of the metacarp. Needs to be compared with the 

 species of the eublemmae-subgvonp in which an equally short metacarp often occurs. 



Apanteles assis sp. n. 



$. Hind femur deeply infuscate ; hind tibia infuscate but becoming reddish yellow on basal 

 third. Wings very faintly brownish. 



Face very distinctly punctate, but the punctures, though large, not sharp. Top of head 

 somewhat dull, the vertex between the posterior ocellus and the eye-margin with distinct rugose- 

 punctation. Antenna as long as the body ; rather thick and with the preapical segment one 

 and a third times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum dull, its punctation coarse and heavy ; at posterior end of notaulic course, the 

 sculpture becomes coarse rugose-reticulation but without longitudinal elements. Disc of 

 scutellum with coarse punctation along sides. Propodeum with complete areolation. Metacarp 

 about four and a half times longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 



Ovipositor sheath slightly longer than the hind tibia ; ovipositor moderately thick. 



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



Philippines : Island of Basilan, 1 $, the TYPE, (Baker). 

 Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



Perhaps fairly closely related to such species as rugiceps and dotus but differing 

 from both of these in having the propodeum fully areolated. Not a sharply charac- 

 terized species but its most significant feature seems to be the strong, dull sculpture 

 of the mesoscutum. 



