RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTERINI 113 



Tergite 1 rather broad, hardly narrowed behind, its surface shiny in spite of weak rugosity that 

 is more in evidence towards sides. Ovipositor sheath as long as the hind tibia ; ovipositor 

 moderately thick. 



Length: ca. 25 mm. without ovipositor. 



W. Africa : Senegal, Bambey, 2 $$, one the TYPE, ex Argyroploce wahlbergiana 

 on rice, (/. Risbec). 



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



Host : Argyroploce wahlbergiana Zeller (Tortricidae). 



A very distinct species, characterized by its ivory-white tegulae and the curiously 

 dense, silky pubescence of the mesoscutum and disc of scutellum. 



Apanteles tnutilia sp. n. 



$. A second species with densely pubescent mesopleurum and a mesoscutal pubescence 

 similar to that of articas, to which species it is closely related, differing from it only in a few 

 details. 



Head above appearing slightly more greyish owing to denser pubescence. 



Lateral, polished zone of the scutellum pushed further forwards, the furrow between itself 

 and the disc narrower than in articas. 



Tergite 1 with its horizontal surface more elongate (Text-fig. 107), its surface smoother, almost 

 unsculptured. Ovipositor sheath about one and a quarter times longer than the hind tibia, 

 falcate apically ; ovipositor thinner, distinctly falcate apically. 



Africa : Sudan, 1 $, the TYPE, bred, 7.1V.1929, from gall on " talh ", (H. W. 

 Bedford) . 



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



Apanteles nepe sp. n. 



$. Hind tibia dull reddish, becoming infuscate in about apical third. Stigma dark brown. 



Eyes hardly convergent. Distance between the posterior ocelli considerably greater than the 

 distance between one of them and the eye-margin. 



Sculpture of mesoscutum like that of eupolis and navius. Propodeum shiny in spite of feeble 

 rugosities. Metacarp slightly longer than twice its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 



Ovipositor sheath slightly longer than the hind tibia ; ovipositor rather thin, weakly curved. 



Length: ca. 23 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Matjesfontein, 7-13. xi. 1928, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. 

 Turner). 



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



Distinct from all the other species of the eublemmae-subgroup on the spines of the 

 outer side of the hind tibia. 



Apanteles lycidas sp. n. 



$. A species with normal mesopleural pubescence and with a mesoscutal pubescence more 

 like that of the species clustering around rosaces and navius than articas and mutilia. 

 The venation proximal to the areolet is weakly but distinctly pigmented. 



