RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTERINI 169 



Sculpture of the mesoscutum and of disc of scutellum as in grandiculus. Inner spur of the hind 

 tibia relatively a little shorter in proportion to the length of the basal segment of the tarsus ; 

 hind tarsus slightly thinner than in grandiculus. 



Apex of the ovipositor with a weak apical sinuation similar to that of grandiculus. 



New Britain : near Rabaul, Keravat, vii.1958, 3 $$, one the TYPE, bred from 

 larva of Aegeriid, (G. S. Dun). 



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



Apanteles seyrigi Wilkinson 

 Apanteles seyrigi Wilkinson, 1936 : 81. 



$. This species is closely and naturally related to grandiculus. It may be compared with that 

 species as follows: 



Colour altogether brighter. Tegula ivory white. All the coxae bright red. Venation 

 proximal to the areolet more pallid. 



Face less convex than in grandiculus , almost flat, with the clypeus more transverse and more 

 distinctly punctate. Ocelli in a slightly higher triangle, the posterior transverse tangent to the 

 anterior ocellus passing in front of the posterior pair. Antenna relatively longer, with the 

 preapical segment about two and a half times longer than wide ; flagellum less bristly. 



Punctation of the mesoscutum slightly less close, the punctures discrete, hardly more crowded 

 along the course of the notaulices ; these show as very broad, shallow impressions. Setae of the 

 basal half of the fore wing much sparser, widely absent along medius side of both median and 

 submedian cells ; 1st abscissa of radius much longer than the transverse cubitus and forming 

 with it a single, feebly curved vein ; radial cell distinctly downcurved at apex (Text-fig. 182). 

 Outer, upper surface of the hind tibia much more densely spinose than in grandiculus, the spines 

 markedly projecting when the tibia is seen from the side. 



<$. Hind coxa brown ; hind tibia faintly tipped with infuscation. Stigma more pallid than in 

 the female. 



Length : ca. 5 mm. without ovipositor ; considerably larger than grandiculus. 



Madagascar : Bekily. 



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



Host : Granger (1949) records Epitarsipus rufithorax Le Cerf (Aegeriidae) as the 

 host of this species. 



Apanteles emesa sp. n. 



This is the most aberrant of the five species I include in the group and differs 

 sharply from the others in having a completely impunctate mesoscutum and scutel- 

 lar disc. Other details of significance have been given in the key ; there is little to 

 add. 



$. Head and thorax deep black. Most of the venation proximal to the areolet very pale ; 

 stigma dark brown. All the coxae blackish ; hind tibia at extreme tip on inner side and the 

 hind tarsus, infuscate. 



Face, head above and the temples polished, impunctate. Ocelli in a somewhat higher triangle 

 with the posterior transverse tangent to the anterior ocellus clearly passing in front of the pos- 

 terior pair. Preapical segment of the antenna about one and two thirds times longer than wide. 



Abscissa 1 of the radius much longer than the transverse cubitus and forming with it a weakly 

 curved vein as in seyrigi (cf . Text-fig. 182) . Thicker spines along upper part of outer side of hind 



