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of the weakly indicated areola becoming smooth and highly polished. Ovipositor sheath as long 

 as the hind tibia ; ovipositor rather thin. 

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



S. W. Africa : Aus, i.1930, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. Turner). 

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



The fore wing of this species shows the same degree of setosity as in rosaces but the 

 two species are different on the length of the metacarp inter alia. 



Apanteles triareus sp. n. 



The differences between this species and ione have been mentioned above. 



$. Posterior ocelli further apart, the distance between them distinctly greater than the 

 distance between one of them and the eye-margin. 



The fore wing lacks the glassy, highly shining appearance seen in ione, largely due to the setae 

 being more numerous. Propodeum covered all over with short, wavy rugae. 



Ovipositor sheath with long, more upstanding hairs ; ovipositor slightly thicker and less 

 curved. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, 24,xii.i938, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. 

 Turner) . 



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



Apanteles dido sp. n. 



$. Closely related to both triareus and ione, with the posterior ocelli as wide apart as in triareus. 



The appearance of the mesoscutum and of the disc of the scutellum is exactly as in triareus. 

 The wings are more like those of triareus than ione ; the setae of the basal cells of the fore wing 

 are colourless whereas in triareus and ione they are brownish. 



Ovipositor thicker than in both the related species, evenly and quite strongly curved through- 

 out. 



Length: ca. 2 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.). 



The form of the antenna is important for the recognition of this species ; it is 

 hardly different from that of camirus (cf. Text-fig. 100). 



Apanteles articas sp. n. 



$. Hind tibia dark brown throughout. Stigma almost colourless, faintly bordered with 

 darker colouring ; metacarp brown ; venation proximal to the areolet colourless. 



Head from in front not in the least triangular, the face wide and the eyes not convergent. An- 

 tenna short, shorter than the body, with the preapical segment about one and a quarter times 

 longer than wide. 



Sculpture of the mesoscutum more or less hidden by the dense pubescence ; very fine, dull, 

 slightly duller along the course of the notaulices. Propodeum typical of the eublemmae-sub- 

 group ; areola virtually not indicated. Metacarp hardly twice as long as its distance from the 

 apex of the radial cell. 



