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Apanteles myeloenta Wilkinson 

 Apanteles myeloenta Wilkinson, 1937 : 463. 



$. Somewhat more stoutly built than cajani and black in colour. 



Apart from the slight sculptural and structural differences given in the key, myeloenta has the 

 propodeum duller than cajani, more sculptured and with a finer, more extensive pubescence. As 

 pointed out by Wilkinson in his description of myeloenta, this species has the apical excision of 

 the hypopygium deeper than in cajani. 



Tergite 1 is more narrowed behind than in cajani (cf. Text-fig. 163). 



Europe : Cyprus. 



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



Host : Myelois ceratoniae Zeller (Phycitidae), a pest of the beans of the carob tree, 

 Ceratonia siliqua. 



This species and cajani are in need of further study. Both are related to the follow- 

 ing species, apidamis. 



Apanteles apidanus sp. n. 



$. Hind tibia sharply whitish at extreme base ; hind tarsus infuscate throughout. Stigma 

 with well marked darker border ; 1st and 2nd abscissae of the discoideus and the nervulus 

 pigmented. 



Head in a facial view markedly transverse. Face shining, finely, indistinctly punctate. Head 

 above, dull, finely roughened. Distance between the posterior ocelli equal to the distance 

 between one of them and the eye-margin. 



Mesoscutum shiny, densely, finely punctate and with a distinct coarsening of sculpture along 

 the course of the notaulices. Disc of scutellum polished, impunctate. Propodeum on each side 

 of the percurrent, longitudinal keel with a fine, dull microsculpture, nowhere polished. Anterior 

 part of mesopleurum finely rugose and without evidence of punctation. Metacarp about three 

 and a half times longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; 1st abscissa of the 

 discoideus very slightly shorter than the 2nd. 



Horizontal part of tergite 1 smooth-looking and with a satin-like sheen ; some indistinct 

 punctation along sides. Median field of tergite (2 + 3) large and not strongly transverse for 

 the group. Ovipositor sheath very long, nearly two and a quarter times longer than the hind 

 tibia ; the apical sinuation of the ovipositor is very weak. 



Length: ca. 3-3 mm. without ovipositor. 



S. Africa : Transvaal, Alkmaar, 16. iv. 1926, 1 $, the TYPE, labelled " bred from 

 larva on grape-fruit stock ", (L. A. Amphlett). 

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



Apanteles jason sp. n. 



$. Closely related to merula from which it differs chiefly in details of wing venation. 



Wings milky-white with the venation proximal to the areolet colourless ; stigma evenly 

 dark brown. 



Preapical segment of the antenna twice as long as wide. Distance between the posterior 

 ocelli distinctly less than the distance between one of them and the eye-margin. 



Mesoscutum less dull and more evenly punctate than in merula. Propodeal keel very narrowly 

 forked and hence appearing double for most of its length. Hind wing much broader, with the 

 cubitellan cell distinctly higher than wide. 



