120 G. E. J. NIXON 



Apanteles linus sp. n. 



$. Head from in front not in the least subtriangular. Face faintly dull. Eyes virtually not 

 convergent. Vertex behind the eyes and the temples more strongly roughened than in most of 

 the species of the eublemmae-subgroup, the surface covered with fine, raised points. Antenna 

 almost as long as the body with the preapical segment fully one and one third times longer than 

 wide. 



Sculpture of the mesoscutum hardly different from that of eublemmae. Metacarp about four 

 and a half times longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; hairs of the median cell 

 decidedly sparse along the medius side. 



Tergite i almost parallel-sided, its horizontal surface very slightly transverse. Ovipositor 

 sheath slightly shorter than the hind tibia. 



Length: ca. 3 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Natal, Kloof, 1,500 ft., viii.1926, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. Turner). 

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



With regard to the sculpture of the propodeum and of tergite 1, this species is 

 transitional between the species of the m£^//MS-complex and the eublemmae-subgroup 

 but the wing venation and the shape of the furrows on the side of the pronotum are 

 typical of the eublemmae-snbgvoup. 



The TAENIATICORNIS Group 



Metacarp many times longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; 

 hind wing only moderately broad, the length of the 2nd abscissa of the mediella 

 hardly shorter than the distance between its distal extremity and the apex of the 

 vannal lobe (Text-fig. 177) ; median and submedian cells densely setose all over. 

 Areolation of the propodeum sharp, complete. 



Indo-australian region. 



This group is largely characterized by the long metacarp in combination with the 

 shape of tergite 1 (Text-fig. 183). It cannot be regarded as sharply distinct from 

 the ater-gvoup s.l. and merges into it through such species as cestius and dissors, both 

 of which I have placed in the ater-gvoup. 



Key to Species 

 Females 



1 Sternaulus in the form of a deep, rugulose furrow that extends upwards towards the 



subalar furrow (Text-fig. 202). 



Hind femur entirely yellow ; vannal lobe beyond its widest part straight and here 

 with an occasional projecting hair ......... 2 



- Sternaulus, if indicated, then in the form of a smooth, broadly hollowed-out furrow . 3 



2 Mesoscutum dull, densely, coarsely rugose-punctate to reticulate-punctate; 



sternaulus longer, extending upwards as a narrowing, subfoveate groove, virtually 

 as far as the subalar furrow (Text-fig. 202) ; flagellum longer, showing no distal 

 thickening, the preapical segment about one and a half times longer than wide 



phalis sp. n. (p. 121) 



- Mesoscutum less dull, and although densely punctate, the sharp, rather large punctures 



are neither close enough, nor coarse enough, to form rugose-punctation ; sternaulus 

 shorter, more evenly deepened and not extending further upwards than the middle 



