200 G. E. J. NIXON 



Europe. The following material in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) :-Sweden, 

 Skane, 4 <$$, 2 $$. England, Bucks., Whaddon Chase, vi. 1 $; Hants, New Forest, 

 vii. 1 <J. 



Type in the University Museum, Lund. 



This species falls into Apanteles on account of the open areolet but its placement 

 in this genus must be considered unnatural. 



MIROPOTES gen. n. 



Type-species : Miropotes creon sp.n. 



Antenna 18-segmented. Ocelli in a high triangle ; posterior, transverse tangent to the 

 anterior ocellus passing far in front of the posterior pair. Head (Text-fig. 236). 



Inner spur of the hind tibia slightly shorter than the outer one, not more than about one 

 quarter the length of the hind basitarsus. Side of pronotum without a dorsal furrow, there being 

 only a single furrow dividing it sharply into two parts. Metacarp about one and one third times 

 longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; radiellan cell of the hind wing abruptly 

 and very strongly constricted at the junction with the spurious radial cross-vein and thence 

 continuing as a very narrow cell to the apex of the wing (Text-fig. 281) ; transverse cubitellan 

 vein wanting ; edge of vannal lobe fringed throughout. 



Tergite 1 fully twice as long as wide. 



The genus is extremely aberrant within the Microgasterini in regard to the vena- 

 tion of the hind wing but in all other respects seems to be more closely related to 

 this tribe than to any other within the Braconidae. I am unable to suggest an 

 affinity with any particular genus within the Microgasterini. 



Key to Species 

 Females 



A Propodeum with a large, somewhat poorly defined areola ; inner spur of the hind tibia 



about one fifth as long as the hind basitarsus .... creon sp. n. (p. 200) 



B Propodeum without an areola, the surface almost smooth ; inner spur of the hind tibia 

 a little more than one quarter as long as the hind basitarsus 



petioloris (Szepligeti) (p. 201) 



Miropotes creon sp. n. 



$. Hind femur yellowish in the type but deeply infuscate in the second female. Wings 

 faintly yellowish in the type but darker in the second female. 



Clypeus with a well marked longitudinal keel. Antenna a little shorter than the body ; 

 segments 15-17 about one and a third times longer than wide. Head from in front (Text-fig. 



236)- 



Mesoscutum very shiny, punctate ; the punctures large, more or less contiguous but ill defined 

 and often shallow. Hind wing (Text-fig. 281). 



Tergite 1 almost parallel-sided, about twice as long as wide, finely, irregularly striated. 

 Median field of tergite 2 shiny, finely striate. Some trace of striation on tergite 3. Ovipositor 

 very thick, abruptly narrowed and hooked at extreme apex (Text-fig. 251). Hypopygium much 

 lengthened, narrowed apically to about 30 degrees. 



Length: ca. 2 mm. without ovipositor. 



