reclassification of microg asterini 239 



The REALES-Groxjp 

 Monobasic. 



Protomicroplitis reales sp. n. 



$. A species of slender, delicate build. Body reddish-brown ; mesoscutum with three faintly 

 darker bands. Legs uniformly brown, the hind pair a little darker than the other two pairs. 

 Wings markedly smoky. 



Head, from above, approaching a subcubical condition, not in the least scooped out behind 

 the ocelli. Clypeus somewhat high and swollen. Frons and vertex virtually without sculpture. 



Mesoscutum finely punctate-rugose. Propodeum rather long and with well defined medial 

 keel. Areolet more or less 4-sided, the 2nd transverse cubitus reduced to a transparent point 

 and received onto the radius (Text-fig. 298) ; radiellan cell of the hind wing twice as long as 

 high and much narrowed distally ; vannal lobe with long fringe (Text-fig. 300). Legs very long, 

 slender ; front femur, seen from side, six times as long as wide ; hind tibia seen from outer side 

 constricted distal to middle and with only fine, rather sparse spines. 



Tergite 1 fully two and a half times as long as its middle width and with medial furrow over 

 basal two thirds ; tergite 2 with delicate aciculation almost all over and with a feebly indicated, 

 elongate, median field ; tergite 3 at least medially with indication of sculpture similar to that of 

 2. Ovipositor sheath without modified apical setae. 



S. Africa : Cape Province, Pondoland, Port St. John, 10-3i.vii.i923, 1 ?, the 

 TYPE, (R. E. Turner). 



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



On the shortness of the hind tibial spurs, this species lacks one of the main features 

 of Protomicroplitis. In habitus, it shows a resemblance to marginatus but there are 

 many differences, and I do not think there is any real affinity here. P. reales seems 

 to be quite isolated and I have met with no species with which it could be confused. 



The MARGIN ATUS-Grovp 

 Monobasic. 



Protomicroplitis marginatus (Nees) comb. n. 



Microgaster marginatus Nees, 1834 : 169. 



$. Legs, on the whole, brightly yellowish ; hind coxa blackish ; hind femur yellow but 

 darkened on about apical quarter ; hind tibia infuscate on apical third and also on short, basal 

 constricted portion ; hind tarsus infuscate throughout. Tergite (2 + 3) yellow on each side of 

 the narrow median field ; the apical part of this sclerite also pale towards sides. Flagellum 

 yellowish except towards apex. 



Head from above somewhat quadrate. Disc of scutellum domed, closely punctate but 

 posteriorly becoming densely rugose and completely interrupting the posterior, polished band 

 of the scutellum. Propodeum long, flattened, with rather weak medial keel. 1st abscissa of the 

 discoideus much shorter than the 2nd. (Text-fig. 322) ; vannal lobe with fringe of long hairs 

 throughout (Text-fig. 6). Hind tibia a little swollen medially ; spines of the outer side of the 

 hind tibia fine and rather sparse ; front tarsal segment 5 with minute spine, very hard to see. 



Ovipositor sheath without trace of apical setiform hairs. 



Europe. 



Type presumably lost. 



I have examined some specimens from the Philippines, Baguio, Benguet, 1 $, 

 Dapitan, 1 $, 3 <$<$, that are almost indistinguishable from European examples. 



