156 G. E. J. NIXON 



Legs, apart from the coxae, entirely bright reddish yellow with the front and middle tarsi 

 almost whitish and the hind tibia becoming whitish on about basal third. Wings virtually clear 

 hyaline ; venation pigmented throughout ; stigma dark brown. 



Face strongly, coarsely punctate ; in places almost longitudinally striate-punctate. Head 

 considerably less transverse than in prusias but showing a resemblance to that of briar eus. 

 Antenna broken but evidently longer and thicker than in prusias with segment 15 fully twice as 

 long as wide ; this is a big difference between the two species. 



Mesoscutum characteristically punctate as in prusias but the surface more shiny and the 

 punctures less close ; the surface is distinctly impressed along the course of the notaulices and 

 here, instead of the punctures being closer and more crowded as usually happens, they tend to 

 become smaller and fade out on posterior half of mesoscutum. Disc of scutellum with hardly a 

 trace of punctation. Propodeum exactly as in prusias. Hind coxa considerably larger than in 

 prusias with the outer, upper face more shiny and with much weaker punctation ; hind tarsus 

 more bristly. Abscissa 1 of the radius much longer in proportion to the length of the transverse 

 cubitus ; the disposition of the veins is altogether more like that of briareus than prusias ; 

 median cell and submedian cell as densely setose as in prusias but the setae longer ; cubitellan 

 cell of the hind wing higher than wide ; hind wing considerably broader. 



Horizontal part of tergite 1 with coarse punctures and rugosity right across. Ovipositor 

 sheaths fully as long as the hind tibia. 



Length: 4-2 mm. without ovipositor. 



Malaya : Trenganu, Jerangau Estate, 2 $$, one the TYPE, bred 21.xii.1955, 

 from cocoon of Conopia sp. (Aegeriidae) . 



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



Apart from the S. African hebrus, no other species in the merula-gvoup has the 

 legs so brightly coloured. Altogether, this is a most distinctive species and probably 

 transitional between the merula- and grandiailus-grou-ps. 



Apanteles hebrus sp. n. 



2. The middle and front legs of this brightly coloured species are somewhat whitish-yellow. 



Face appearing slightly roughened owing to presence of fine, raised points. Antenna about 

 as long as the body, tapering apically with the preapical segment about one and one third times 

 longer than wide. Distance between the posterior ocelli equal to the distance between one of 

 them and the eye-margin. 



Mesoscutum shiny, with an indistinct, very superficial punctation. Disc of scutellum 

 polished, virtually impunctate. Propodeum, in contrast, dull, with a satin-like sheen and fine 

 microsculpture ; a few, large punctures across the brow ; median keel percurrent, distinct. 

 Abscissa 1 of the discoideus distinctly a little longer than 2 ; metacarp fully six times as long 

 as its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; cubitellan cell of the hind wing a little wider than 

 high. Hind tarsus, in profile, tapering somewhat apically and having a densely bristly appear- 

 ance; inner spur of the hind tibia very powerful, about three quarters as long as the hind 

 basitarsus. 



Tergites 1 and (2 + 3), (Text-fig. 176). Ovipositor sheath about three quarters as long as the 

 hind tibia ; ovipositor evenly curved throughout and without an apical attenuation. 



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



o*. It is with confidence that I associate two males with the type female. The wings are a 

 little darker than those of the female. The antenna, apart from the normal sexual differences, 

 shows the same long hairs beneath the flagellum. The hind coxa is entirely brown in one 

 example but yellow beneath in the other. 



S. Africa : Pondoland, Port St. John, 1-5. iv. 1923, 1 $, the TYPE, 25-31. hi. 1923, 

 2 <$<$> {R- E- Turner). 



