no G. E. J. NIXON 



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



Host : Plutella maculipennis Curtis. Evidently a gregarious parasite. 



The most obvious differences between this species and rosaces lie in the length of 

 the antenna and of the ovipositor sheath. 



Apanteles patens sp. n. 



$. This species is related to both eriophyes and rosaces on the shortness of the metacarp and in 

 having a somewhat triangular head as seen from in front. It may be compared with these two 

 species as follows : — 



Hind tibia becoming markedly yellowish on basal half. Wings distinctly brownish. 



Face dull, finely roughened. Antenna almost as long as in rosaces but slightly less thin and 

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



Mesoscutum duller, more coarsely sculptured than in either rosaces or eriophyes. Propodeum 

 dull, finely sculptured all over. Median cell densely setose all over ; hind wing narrower than in 

 eriophyes. 



Tergite i shorter, almost subquadrate and, like the median field of tergite (2 + 3), dull, with a 

 fine, almost shagreened surface ; rest of tergite (2 + 3) microscopically roughened, with a dull, 

 satin-like sheen. Pubescence of gaster very fine and inconspicuous. Ovipositor sheath about 

 three quarters as long as the hind tibia. 



Length: ca. 2-5 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, 5-31.vii.1921, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. 

 Turner) . 



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



With regard to the appearance of the wings — colour and dense, dark setae of the 

 median cell — this species is also very like trabea. It differs, however, from this 

 species strikingly in having non-convergent eyes. The sculpture of the basal 

 tergites of patens is very characteristic. 



Apanteles camirus sp. n. 



§. Another species with a markedly rostriform face and short metacarp but differing from 

 trabea, rosaces, eriophyes and patens in having a much longer ovipositor and a longer, extremely 

 thin antenna (Text-fig. 100). 



Eyes not at all convergent. Face strongly shining. Antenna with the preapical segment 

 about one and a half times longer than wide ; segment 14 fully twice as long as wide. 



Sculpture of mesoscutum and disc of scutellum as in rosaces. Propodeum as described for 

 rosaces. Wings as in rosaces and eriophyes ; stigma evenly dark brown ; setae of the median 

 and submedian cells very sparse. 



Sculpture and shape of tergites 1 and (2 -f- 3) as in rosaces ; sometimes the horizontal part of 

 tergite 1 shows a weak indication of a longitudinal furrow. 



Length: ca. 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Matjesfontein, 7-13. xi. 1928, 12 $$, one the TYPE, 

 14-27. xi. 1928, 4 $$, (all R. E. Turner). 

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



An easily distinguished species, most clearly related perhaps to rosaces but differing 

 at once from that species on the length of the ovipositor. 



