176 G. E. J. NIXON 



scutellum weakly developed, so that the rugose tongue between itself and the disc is nowhere 

 parallel-sided. Vannal lobe beyond its widest part with sparse but distinctly projecting hairs ; 

 angle between the ist abscissa of the radius and the transverse cutibus distinct and marked by a 

 stub ; metacarp distant from apex of radial cell by a length equal to about two thirds that of 

 abscissa i of the radius. Dosral furrow of side of pronotum not extending as far as the posterior 

 margin of pronotum and hence not completely dividing the upper area from the middle area 

 (Text-fig. 198). 



Tergite 1 finely aciculate-punctate, gradually, strongly, narrowed from base to apex, fully 

 twice as long as wide and turned over far posterior to middle. 



India : Bengal, Bagdogra, 13.vii.1937, 7 $$, one the TYPE, 5 <££, ex Locastra 

 muscosalis, (C. F. C. Beeson). 



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



Host : Locastra muscosalis Walker (Pyralidae). 



Easily recognised by the brightly coloured gaster in combination with the long 

 hairs of the scape and the long, upstanding hairs of the ovipositor sheath. 



Apanteles iriarte sp. n. 



$. This species is very like calycinae. 



Legs on the whole obscurely brownish. Wings with very faint brownish tint ; stigma pale 

 brown. 



Head less transverse ; smooth above and with faint satin-like sheen. 



Mesoscutum dull, with a dense, shallow punctation and a distinct satin-like sheen. Propo- 

 deum with a considerable amount of weak rugosity ; nowhere smooth and polished. Cubitellan 

 cell of the hind wing about twice as wide as high. 



Tergite 1 more narrowed behind than in calycinae and with a polished, differentiated apical 

 zone that is slightly longer than wide (Text-fig. 196). Median field of tergite (2 + 3) very small. 

 Ovipositor sheath a little shorter, about one and a quarter times longer than the hind tibia. 



Length: ca. 2 mm. without ovipositor. 



Philippines : Luzon, Mt. Makiling, 1 $, the TYPE, (Baker). 

 Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



On the whole a poorly characterized species, most readily distinguished from 

 calycinae and the following species, statins, on the sculpture of the mesoscutum and to 

 a less extent on the small size of the median field of tergite (2 + 3). 



Apanteles statius sp. n. 



$. Very closely related to iriarte and differing from it by little more than the characters given 

 in the key. 



Head more transverse than in iriarte and much as in calycinae. The antenna is distinctly 

 shorter than the body with the two preapical segments hardly longer than wide. 



The appearance of the mesoscutum is subtly different, the surface being blacker (in iriarte the 

 whole thorax has a faintly reddish tint) , lacking the satin-like sheen and the punctation stronger. 



The smooth tip of tergite 1 is less distinctly differentiated, the surface anterior to it being more 

 shiny. Median field of tergite (2 + 3) relatively larger. 



Philippines : Los Bafios, 1 $, the TYPE, (Baker). 

 Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



