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Posterior, horizontal part of tergite 1 smooth, polished. In a dorsal view, the hairs of the 

 ovipositor sheath are extremely short, not upstanding. 

 Length: 2-8 mm. without ovipositor. 



Malaya : Serdang, 14.lv. 1932, 1 $, the TYPE, labelled " cocoon on tuba leaf ", 

 (N. C. E. Miller). Java : Tjipetir, 2^1.1934, 1 $, (C. Franssen). 



Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Second female in U.S. National 

 Museum. 



This rather small species has the hind wing broader than any other species among 

 those having a short, evenly curved ovipositor. 



Apanteles alfalfae Nixon 



Apanteles alfalfae Nixon, i960 : 303. 



$. Easily recognised by its polished mesoscutum, pale spot at base of stigma and short 

 ovipositor. The distance between the posterior ocelli is very distinctly greater than the distance 

 between one of them and the eye-margin. Cubitellan cell of the hind wing almost twice as high 

 as wide (Text-fig. 131). Ovipositor (Text-fig. 173). Basal tergites (Text-fig. 166). 



Australia. 



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



Host : Etiella behrii Zeller (Phycitidae), a pest of lucerne. 



This species is more closely related to such species as merula and jason than to the 

 myeloenta-cajani complex. 



Apanteles tedanius sp. n. 



o*?. Black. Wings hyaline but the venation dark brown and fully pigmented throughout ; 

 stigma evenly dark brown. Hind tibia blackish but yellowish on basal quarter ; sometimes the 

 pale colour extends over almost basal half ; hind basitarsus whitish on fully basal half. 



$. Head in a facial view more or less circular. Face quite dull, closely reticulate-punctate. 

 A similar sculpture covers temples and vertex. Antenna about as long as the body ; the three 

 preapical segments somewhat loosely articulated, almost moniliform with segment 17 hardly 

 longer than wide. Distance between the posterior ocelli not at all greater than the distance 

 between one of them and the eye-margin. 



Mesoscutum quite dull, like the head, closely, heavily punctate all over ; the punctures 

 slightly larger along the course of the notaulices. Disc of scutellum punctate towards sides. 

 Propodeum dull, rugose all over with percurrent medial keel. Wings: abscissa 1 of the dis- 

 coideus much longer than the nervulus ; metacarp about two and a half times longer than its 

 distance from the apex of the radial cell ; a conspicuous angle between abscissa 1 of the radius 

 and the transverse cubitus ; vannal lobe not at all concave and with trace of a weak fringe ; 

 basella strongly incurved. Apical tarsal segment of all legs, especially the front pair, con- 

 siderably enlarged (Text-fig. 174). 



Tergite 1 (Text-fig. 165), not very strongly narrowed behind, dull, with satin-like sheen and 

 weakly punctate towards sides. Ovipositor sheath very slightly longer than the hind tibia ; 

 seen from above with long, upstanding hairs. Ovipositor weakly, evenly curved throughout. 



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



<$. Like the female except for the sexual differences. 



