RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 167 



Face shiny, distinctly but rather superficially punctate. Temples shiny but distinctly and 

 rather finely rugose-punctate. Posterior tangent to the anterior ocellus hardly touching the 

 posterior pair. Antenna almost as long as the body with the preapical segment almost twice as 

 long as wide ; flagellum somewhat bristly. 



Mesoscutum shiny, densely punctate ; no obvious crowding of punctures to mark the course 

 of the notaulices. Disc of scutellum shiny, punctate almost all over. Suture between mesoscu- 

 tum and disc of scutellum in the form of a thin, very shallow, hardly foveate groove. Pro- 

 podeum very shiny and with traces of punctation anteriorly. Hind wing (Text-fig. 180). 



Tergite 1 very shiny, smooth, except for faint traces of aciculation on its posterior horizontal 

 part (Text-fig. 179). Ovipositor sheath fully twice as long as the hind tibia, very thin ; 

 ovipositor very thin and with a weak apical sinuation (Text-fig. 178). 



Length: 4 mm. without ovipositor. 



India : Assam, Shillong, 2 $$. 



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



Recorded by Wilkinson as a parasite of a lepidopterous borer in Rubus sp. 



Apanteles conopiae Watanabe 



Apanteles conopiae Watanabe, 1934 : 139. 



This species is extremely close to grandiculus and may indeed not be distinct from 

 it. Nevertheless, since the two species can be separated on the colour of the stigma 

 I am provisionally keeping them apart. 



$. Apart from the evenly brown stigma, all the venation proximal to the areolet shows 

 normal pigmentation. 



Face and temples slightly less distinctly punctate. Antenna slightly shorter and slightly 

 thinner, with the preapical segment fully twice as long as wide. 



Mesoscutum more finely, more superficially punctate. 



Japan : Tokio, <J and $ paratypes in British Museum (Nat. Hist.), bred from 

 Conopia hector. Malaya : Trenganu, ii.1955, 2 $$ bred from Conopia theobroma. 

 Type in Hokkaido Imperial University. 



Host: Conopia hector Butler ; Conopia theobroma Bradley. ( Aegeriidae) . 



I am satisfied that I have correctly determined the two Malayan females as 

 conopiae. The species evidently has a wide distribution and only more material can 

 decide how conopiae and grandiculus stand in relation to each other. 



The wings of the two Japanese paratypes are stained with brown. I am inclined 

 to think that this may not be natural to the insects. 



Apanteles orsedice sp. n. 



This species has the stigma dark brown and the venation throughout deeply 

 pigmented. Although more heavily built than either of them, it is clearly closely 

 related to both grandiculus and conopiae. 



$. May be compared with grandiculus as follows: 



Wings faintly but distinctly darkened. The red hind tibia tipped with weak infuscation ; 

 hind tarsus weakly infuscate. 



Temples hardly punctate, the surface with a distinct satin-like sheen. Antenna relatively a 

 little longer, slightly tapered distally and with the preapical segment fully twice as long as wide. 



