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basal lobe and hence without cleft ; hairs of the median cell becoming sparse and 

 absent along the medius side ; lateral keel of propodeum not interrupted by the 

 spiracle though sometimes nearly touched by it ; tergite 2 less transverse, nearly as 

 long as 3. 



Antenna not longer than the body and in this respect resembling that of geo- 

 metrivorns but not the other species of the group ; thorax virtually black and the 

 mesoscutum much polished, virtually impunctate even in front ; hind tibia less 

 bristly than in pompelon ; tergite 1, and 2 almost entirely, bright yellow ; tergite 1 

 tends to be rather deeply and widely excavate anterior to its turned over posterior 

 part .......... papilionis Viereck 30 



India. Malaya. 



Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



Host: Papilio agamemnon L., Papilio demoleus L. (Papilionidae). 

 ) Stigma unusually broad ; ovipositor sheath straight, slightly narrowed apically, 

 projecting freely beyond the short hypopygium (Text-fig. 221). 



Tergite 1 dull reddish ; membranous sides of this tergite and of tergite (2 + 3) 

 yellow ; tergite 2 with distinct, oblong, raised, median swelling ; this tergite, in 

 its relation to tergite 3, like that of formosns (cf. Text-fig. 228) ; preapical segment 

 of the antenna about one and a half times longer than wide . . sancus sp. n. 



France: Montpellier, x.1923, 3 $$, one the TYPE, 1 <J, (/• Suire). Type in the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Host: Lycaena sp. Gregarious, there being six papery cocoons, packed closely 

 together. 



This distinct species has the stigma broader than in any other. 



- Stigma of normal form ; ovipositor sheath not projecting so freely beyond the apex 



of the hypopygium ........... 10 



3 Tergite 2 half as long as 3 ; hairs of the median cell very sparse and absent along the 

 medius side ; most of the venation proximal to the areolet pale and almost un- 

 pigmented ; tergite 1 entirely bright yellow ; antenna a little shorter, the preapical 

 segment hardly more than one and a half times longer than wide ; hypopygium 

 short, almost truncate in profile ; tergite 1 broader, more polished and hollowed 

 out anteriorly, exactly like that of papilionis . . . geometrivorus de Saeger 31 



Africa: Belgian Congo (type locality). Uganda. Type in the Congo Museum, 

 Tervuren. 



Host: Green and yellow Geometrid on Cajanns indicits. Gregarious with brown 

 cocoons piled on dead host. 



This species is extremely like papilionis, differing only in the length of tergite 2 in 

 relation to that of 3. 



- Tergite 2 fully two thirds as long as 3 ; hairs of the median cell more numerous and 



evenly distributed ; venation pigmented everywhere ; tergite 1 reddish but 

 infuscated on its turned over posterior part ; this tergite longer than in geometri- 

 vorus and showing a certain amount of apical roughening ; antenna longer, the 

 preapical segment fully twice as long as wide ; hypopygium longer, sharply 

 pointed, angled at about 45 degrees. 



Posterior, polished band of the scutellum unusually wide, almost as wide as in 

 formosns to which this species is probably more closely allied than to geometrivorus 



anthedon sp. n. 



S. Africa: Transvaal, Belfast, vi.1938, 23 $$, one the TYPE, 1 q\ (F.G. C. Tooke). 

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



30 Apanteles (Protapanteles) papilionis Viereck, 1912 : 145. 



A panteles papilionis Viereck ; Wilkinson, 1928 : 81. 

 3l Apanteles geometrivorus de Saeger, 1941 : 331. 



