RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 103 



Apanteles despectus sp. n. 



$. Hind leg, including the tarsus, entirely blackish, except that the tibia is faintly paler at 

 extreme base. 



Face shiny, almost smooth. Vertex between the ocelli and the eye-margin almost smooth. 

 Posterior ocelli rather wide apart, the distance between them fully equal to the distance between 

 one of them and the eye-margin. Antenna as long as the body, very thin, with segment 13 much 

 longer than 14 and the preapical segment about one and one third times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum somewhat dull, its punctation fine and not very distinct. A zone of duller 

 sculpture marks the posterior end of the notaulic courses. Propodeum with no trace of a 

 costula. Hind tarsus relatively long and thin. 



Tergite 1 parallel-sided. Tergites thickly setose all over. Ovipositor sheath fully two thirds 

 as long as the hind tibia ; ovipositor rather thin, not strongly curved and in general appearance 

 much as in daimenes (cf. Text-fig. 85). 



Length: 2 mm. without ovipositor. 



Thailand : Bangkok, x.1958, 2 $$, one the TYPE, 2 $<$, labelled " ex ground- 

 nut leaf-miner ". 



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



A species characterized by the very short metacarp in combination with the short 

 ovipositor. The Australian ippeus has also a short metacarp and in many respects 

 is fairly closely related to despectus but ippetis has the metacarp still shorter than in 

 despectus and the ovipositor slightly longer, among other small differences. 



Apanteles schneideri sp. n. 



?. Differs from daimenes, painei, despectus and scultena in having tergite 1 strongly narrowed 

 to apex and the ovipositor sheath about as long as the hind tibia. 



Legs brownish with the hind tibia becoming yellowish on basal half. 



Frons above, vertex and temples finely rugose, dull. Antenna shorter than the body with 

 segment 17 about one and a third times longer than wide and segment 13 one and a half times 

 longer than wide and only slightly longer than 14; pubescence of flagellum rather bristly. 



Punctation of mesoscutum rather strong for the size of the insect ; punctures larger at poster- 

 ior end of notaulic course but the surface here without longitudinal elements. Disc of scutellum 

 smooth. Propodeum without costula. Setae of the median cell not dense. Spines of the outer 

 side of the hind tibia unusually sparse. 



Ovipositor short, thick, rather abruptly narrowed apically but less than in scultena (cf. Text- 

 fig. 83) ; longer than in scultena. 



East Sumatra : Asahan, 1934-36, 12 $$, one the TYPE, bred from lepidopterous 

 pest on Gambir, (F. Schneider). 



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



The absence of sculpture on tergite 1 should not be accepted as absolutely 

 diagnostic for the recognition of this species ; far more important is the shape of 

 the ovipositor. 



