RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 101 



Tergite i short and only weakly narrowed behind. Ovipositor strongly curved and without 

 an apical constriction. 



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



Fiji Is : Koroninia, 20-21. xii. 1951, 6 $$, one the TYPE, 1 <$, bred from larva 

 on sweet potato, (B. A. O'Connor). 



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



This species is characterized by the relatively large size of the mesoscutal punc- 

 tures and the shape of the ovipositor. 



Apanteles scultena sp. n. 



$. At first sight like daimenes but at once distinguishable from that species on the shape of the 

 ovipositor. It may be compared with daimenes as follows: — ■ 



Hind femur, hind tibia and hind tarsus entirely reddish yellow, though the hind femur is faintly 

 darker than its tibia. Stigma almost colourless, pale straw-yellow. 



Face distinctly but indefinitely punctate. Frons above and the vertex between the ocelli 

 and the eye-margin dull, finely, evenly rugose. Antenna very distinctly shorter than the body 

 with the preapical segment only about one and a quarter times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutal punctation finer and denser ; a distinct trace of longitudinal elements at the 

 posterior end of the notaulic course. Propodeal areolation showing less definition ; costula 

 completely absent. 



Hypopygium heavily sclerotised and without lateral creasing. Ovipositor (Text-fig. 83). 



Malaya : Clifford Road, 26.X.1939, 3 $$, one the TYPE, 1 <J. 

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



Apanteles painei sp. n. 



$. This species differs strikingly from both daimenes and scultena on the sculpture of the top 

 of the head and of the mesoscutum. It may be compared with daimenes as follows: — 



Hind tibia virtually black ; only the extreme base faintly reddish. Stigma colourless with a 

 darker border. 



Vertex between the ocelli and the eye-margin as coarsely sculptured as the temples ; whereas 

 in daimenes the polished occipital region extends almost to the posterior ocelli, in this species 

 there is a broad zone of dull, rugose sculpture behind the ocelli ; this sculptured zone is sharply 

 marked off from the polished occiput. 



Posterior end of the notaulic courses with a large, duller area of coarser punctation ; no 

 longitudinal elements within this zone. Mesopleurum much more coarsely sculptured ; a row 

 of short, transverse costae extends downwards from beneath the wing insertions into the posterior 

 oblique depression. Hind wing slightly broader. Costula of propodeum distinct throughout. 



Setae of tergites (2 + 3)-6 restricted virtually to a single row ; this tendency is much less 

 noticeable in daimenes (Text-fig. n). Ovipositor sheath slightly longer ; ovipositor itself much 

 as in daimenes but slightly thicker (cf. Text-fig. 85). 



New Guinea : Lae, 9 ?$, one the TYPE, 8 £3, bred viii-x.1957, from Agonoxena 

 Pyrogramma, (R. W. Paine). 



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



Host : Agonoxena pyrogramma Meyrick (Agonoxenidae). 



Differs from scultena on sculpture, leg colour and shape of ovipositor. 



