RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTERINI 165 



Philippines : Benguet, Baguio, 5 $$, one the TYPE, 19 <$<$ ; Mindanao, Dapitan, 

 1 $, 1 cJ, (all Baker) ; Mt. St. Thomas, near Baguio, 6,500 ft., xii & iv, 5 $$, 6 $£ ; 

 Negros Or., Mt. Canlaon, v, 1 $, 1 <$, (H. M. & D. Townes). 



Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



This most distinctive species is aberrant and departs in many particulars from the 

 pattern of the merula-group. Apart from the form of the vannal lobe, the polished 

 field at the side of the scutellum is smaller and less extended forwards so that the 

 furrow between itself and the disc is not linear as in the typical species of the group. 

 Nor is the polished field at side of scutellar disc provided with a sharp, raised edge 

 behind. 



I have included the species in the merula-group chiefly on account of the medial 

 propodeal keel and the shape of the first tergite. Specifically it is essentially 

 characterized by the dull, heavily punctate sculpture of the head and thorax. I 

 know of no species with which it could be confused. 



Apanteles Camilla sp. n. 



$. Stigma pellucid with a darker border. Hind leg black virtually throughout ; only the 

 merest trace of pallor at base of tibia ; middle legs also blackish but the middle tibia reddish 

 on about basal quarter. 



Head from in front slightly transverse ; above dull, finely roughened ; temples more strongly 

 rugose. Face dull, roughened, its rugosity consisting of minute granulations. Distance 

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

 Antenna as long as the body, rather thin and with the preapical segment about one and half 

 times longer than wide. 



Mesoscutum finely punctate ; punctures finest and somewhat obsolescent along each side of 

 the middle line and the surface here showing a satin-like sheen ; the punctures are coarsest 

 broadly along the course of the notaulices ; the two posterior areas of rugose-punctation are 

 almost confluent. Disc of scutellum polished, with a few punctures along sides ; polished, 

 lateral zone of scutellum not extending so far forwards as is usual in the merula-group. Metacarp 

 about five times as long as its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; vannal lobe strongly 

 concave. Propodeum dull, rugulose, the sculpture stronger medially ; no trace of a medial keel. 



Tergite (2 + 3) beyond the dull, finely rugose median field, with a satin-like sheen. Oviposi- 

 tor sheath broad, about as long as the hind tibia. Ovipositor (Text-fig. 170). 



Length: ca. 35 mm. without ovipositor. 



India : Shillong, 27.ix.1961, 1 $, the TYPE, labelled " ex caterpillar attacking 

 Pine-shoot", {V. P. Rao). 



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



This species is aberrant within the mertda-gvoup on account of the absence of a 

 sharp, posterior margin to the lateral, polished zone of the scutellum and the reduced 

 forward extension of this. With regard to scutellar structure, Camilla is like the 

 species of the melacarpalis-group. None of the species of this group, however, has a 

 concave vannal lobe, though dioryctriae has the edge of the vannal lobe beyond its 

 widest part almost straight and in general facies is very like Camilla. 



Apanteles Camilla must be regarded as transitional between the group of merula 

 and that of metacarpalis. Its existence serves to stress the difficulty of defining 

 species-groups within Apanteles. 



