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Head from in front very slightly transverse. Face shining, almost smooth. Top of head 

 completely dull, owing to fine rugosity overlaid with a satin-like sheen. Antenna shorter than 

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



Sculpture of mesoscutum fine, exactly as in nemesis and drupes. Propodeum typical of group ; 

 on either side of a weakly defined areola, the surface is dull, almost smooth. Metacarp about 

 three times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; hind wing decidedly broad. 



Tergite i only very slightly widened behind ; its horizontal surface dull, with a very fine 

 microsculpture and having a satin-like appearance. Ovipositor sheath as long as the hind tibia 

 (Text-fig. 1 06). 



E. Africa : Tanganyika Territory, Moshi, vii.1929, 3 $$, one the TYPE, ex 

 " pupa " of Eublemma costimacula, {A. H. Ritchie) ; Kenya, Kiambu, 1932, 7 °-?> 

 1 (3\ ex Eublemma costimacula (R. H. le Pelley). S. Africa : Pondoland, Port St. 

 John, v.1924, 1 $, (R. E. Turner) ; Cape Province, Mossel Bay, ii.1932, 1 $, (R. E. T.). 



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



Host : Eublemma costimacula Saalmuller (Noctuidae). 



Apanteles evadne sp. n. 



$. Tegula ivory-white. Wings milky-white ; stigma pale ; venation proximal to the 

 areolet colourless. Hind tibia virtually black throughout. 



Vertex shiny and with hardly a trace of the dull surface sculpture characteristic of the 

 eublemmae-subgroup. Face smooth, shiny. Head from in front not in the least subtriangular. 

 Eyes not convergent. Antenna about as long as the body with the preapical segment about one 

 and a half times times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutal sculpture typical of the subgroup. Disc of scutellum polished and with only a 

 faint trace of roughness along sides. Propodeum rather long, with large, well defined U-shaped 

 areola, which is above almost closed and within, polished. Legs slender ; hind tarsus parti- 

 cularly long. Metacarp about three times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; 

 1st abscissa of the radius fully twice as long as the transverse cubitus. 



Tergite 1 shiny, without a satin-like sheen, covered with sparse rugosities and irregular pits. 

 Gaster elongate, with the median field of tergite (2 + 3) relatively large (Text-fig. 98). Ovi- 

 positor moderately thick. 



Length: ca. 2-8 mm. without ovipositor. 



Africa : Uganda, Kampala, 5.x. 1929, 1 $, the TYPE, ex Tortrix sp., (G. L. R. 

 Hancock); Bukalata, 11.viii.1935, 1 $, ex cocoon on cotton leaf, (7". H. C. Taylor). 

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



This slenderly built species is not altogether typical of the eublemmae-subgroup, 

 especially with regard to the long first abscissa of the radius. It could be confused 

 only with alaspharus on the length of the ovipositor, though this is much thinner in 

 evadne. Furthermore, evadne has a longer antenna than alaspharus. 



Apanteles oscus sp. n. 



$. This species is closely related to olorus. 



Build slightly less robust. Metacarp about five times as long as its distance from the apex of 

 the radial cell. Tergite 1 slightly less narrowed apically. Ovipositor (Text-fig. 101). 

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



