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



This is an aberrant species, far removed from the other species with keeled pro- 

 podeum. In addition to the long spurs of the middle and hind legs, the polished, 

 lateral zone of the scutellum lacks the raised posterior edge typical of the lacteus- 

 group. 



In all the other species of the group, the longer spur of the middle tibia does not 

 reach beyond the apex of the middle basitarsus. 



Apanteles pyrene sp. n. 



$. Hind leg blackish throughout, except for the basal quarter of the hind tibia which is 

 obscurely whitish. Stigma evenly dark brown. 



Face finely roughened and with a satin-like sheen. Antenna as long as the body with the 

 preapical segment one and one third times longer than wide. Vertex between the ocelli and the 

 temples finely roughened and dull. Distance between the posterior ocelli slightly greater than 

 the distance between one of them and the eye-margin. 



Propodeum dull, for the most part ; finely, evenly rugose with punctures across brow but 

 becoming smoother and polished towards posterior corners. 



Median field of tergite (2 + 3) very small, with long drawn-out lateral angles and with a row 

 of punctures across apical margin. 



Length: ca. 25 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, vi-vii.1930, 1 $, the TYPE, 15.iii.-30.iv. 

 1932, 2 $$, v.1930, 1 $, v.1937, 1 $, (R. E. Turner). 

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



Species characterized by the sculpture of the mesoscutum and of the disc of the 

 scutellum. 



Apanteles lynceus sp. n. 



$. Hind leg entirely blackish, except that the base of the hind tibia (about a quarter) is 

 whitish-yellow. Wings faintly smoky with the venation fully pigmented and the stigma evenly 

 dark brown. 



Face shiny, distinctly but rather superficially punctate. Distance between the posterior 

 ocelli equal to the distance between one of them and the eye-margin. Antenna shorter than the 

 body ; the four preapical segments almost square in outline. 



Punctures of the mesoscutum slightly larger and slightly more crowded along the course of the 

 notaulices. Disc of scutellum polished and with hardly a trace of punctation. Propodeum 

 with considerable rugosity around sides and along sides of medial keel ; on each side of the medial 

 keel the surface becomes smooth, shining. Metacarp fully six times as long as its distance 

 from the apex of the radial cell ; 1st abscissa of the discoideus not longer than the 2nd ; hind 

 wing rather narrow ; cubitellan cell of the hind wing about as high as wide. 



Ovipositor sheath about one and a quarter times longer than the hind tibia ; ovipositor evenly 

 curved and without an apical attenuation. 



Length: 2-8 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Mossel Bay, i.1922, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. Turner). 

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



The propodeum of this species is rather long with its lateral field not at all trans- 

 verse. The species is characterized by the combination of the short antenna and the 



