RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 161 



This is the only species of the group with an elongate face and is easily recognised 

 on this character alone. The sculpture of the mesoscutum is like that of isus but 

 very different from that of merula. 



Apanteles aeolus sp. n. 



$. At first sight very like lacteoides but differing in several important details. 



Wings, though hyaline, lacking the milky-white tint of lacteoides ; stigma pale with a faintly 

 darker border but the metacarp not darker than the dark border of the stigma ; venation 

 proximal to the areolet weakly pigmented. 



Head from in front not in the least subtriangular. Antenna longer than in merula and isus 

 but a little shorter than in lacteoides with the preapical segment about one and one third times 

 longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum more sharply and distinctly punctate than in lacteoides ; the punctation con- 

 siderably stronger than in isus. 



Tergite i very broad at base (Text-fig. 164), broader than in lacteoides ; horizontal surface 

 with some fine surface sculpture and vague punctation ; hence a little dull by comparison with 

 lacteoides. Ovipositor sheath hardly longer than the hind tibia ; ovipositor evenly but weakly 

 curved throughout. 



Length: 3-8-4 mm. without ovipositor. 



Europe : Germany, Hamburg, 26.vii.1906, 1 $, the TYPE, said to have been 

 bred from Salebria betulae, (A. C. W. Wagner Coll.) ; Wittenbergen, 7.vii.io,3i, 1 $, 

 (A. C. W. Wagner Coll.). 



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



Host : Salebria betulae Goeze (Phycitidae). This record needs confirmation. 



Apanteles cajani Wilkinson 

 Apanteles cajani Wilkinson, 1928a : in. 



$. Body brownish with faint reddish tinge ; hollowed out, basal part of tergite 1 reddish. 

 Wings hyaline but without a milky-white tint ; stigma pale yellow ; metacarp darker but 

 its colour not in sharp contrast with that of the stigma ; venation proximal to the areolet weakly 

 pigmented. 



Head in a facial view markedly transverse ; above dull, with satin-like sheen and traces of 

 punctation, especially above antennal scrobes. Face distinctly but not deeply punctate. 

 Antenna shorter than the body, rather thin, with the preapical segment about one and one third 

 times longer than wide and segment 16 almost one and a half times longer than wide. Distance 

 between the posterior ocelli equal to the distance between one of them and the eye-margin. 



Mesoscutum somewhat dull, densely, discretely punctate ; the punctures more crowded along 

 the course of the notaulices to form duller bands of rugosity. Abscissa 1 of the discoideus not 

 longer than the nervulus ; metacarp about four and a half times longer than its distance from 

 the apex of the radial cell. Cubitellan cell of the hind wing a little higher than wide. 



Tergite 1 not strongly narrowed behind (Text-fig. 163) ; sharply punctate along sides and 

 especially where it turns over. Ovipositor sharply downcurved at apex. 



Length: ca. 4 mm. without ovipositor. 



India : Pusa (type locality). 



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



This species is extremely like myeloenta and the differences between the two species 

 are subtle and difficult to appreciate. 



