RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTE RI NI 247 



Edge of vannal lobe beyond its widest part with fringe of hairs ; 1st abscissa of the 

 radius meeting the 1st transverse cubitus at a right angle or even a distinctly acute 

 angle ; propodeum on each side of its keel densely rugose-punctate. 



Tergite 1 and 2 yellow ; hind femur virtually black throughout ; fore wing with 

 or without a faint apical spot, less distinct than the female . basimacula (Cameron) 



Edge of vannal lobe beyond its widest part without a fringe of hairs and here very 

 slightly concave ; 1st abscissa of the radius forming a curve at its junction with the 

 1st transverse cubitus or, if the two veins are distinctly angled at their junction, then 

 the angle is obviously obtuse ; propodeum on each side of its keel smooth-looking 

 and with only vague punctation or rugose-punctation. 



Fore wing with an apical spot ......... 7 



2nd discoidal cell almost without hairs ; tergite 1 more narrowed to apex, reddish, 

 with the posterior, horizontal surface on each side of the furrow blackened ; tergite 

 3 with a large, sub-triangular polished area, widest on anterior side and extending 

 over about two thirds of the middle length of the tergite. 



Hind femur red with weak apical infuscation . . . sons (Wilkinson) 49 



Australia: F. C. T., Brindabella, TYPE q* only. Type in British Museum (Nat. 

 Hist.). 

 2nd discoidal cell hairy almost everywhere ; tergite less narrowed to apex, yellow 

 throughout ; tergite 3 with narrow, longitudinal, polished area extending virtually 

 to apex. 



Hind femur reddish brown. A single q" from Mt. Makiling has the hind femur 

 blackish and tergite 1 almost entirely blackish, showing only a faint reddish flush 

 along each side (see couplet 4) ....... eclectes sp. n. 



Females .............. 9 



Males. 



Gaster entirely black ; hind femur varying from entirely reddish-yellow to 

 reddish-yellow basally with infuscation spreading over as much as apical half (see 

 couplet 9) .......... . nephele sp. n. 



Tergites 1 and 2 entirely black or at most tergite 1 with paler, lateral area ; tergite 2 

 without indication of a median field. 



Spp. with hind femur almost entirely black ; hind tibia sharply whitish on about 

 basal third ............. 10 



Tergites 1 and 2 yellow-testaceous except for the median field of tergite 2 ; tergite 3 

 with indication of an elongate wedge-shaped area with sculpture similar to that of the 

 median area of 2. 



Paler species than those following, with the hind femur suffused with reddish on 

 fully basal third and the dark apical part of the hind tibia brown rather than black ; 

 flagellum distinctly thickened and darkened in apical third ; head brown ; length 

 24 mm. ........... nephele sp. n. 



Brazil: Nova Teutonia, 15. vi. 1937, 1 $, theTYPE, v-vi, 60*6*, (Plaumann) . Type 

 in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 

 3 Head, in a facial view, almost subtriangular ; face somewhat flattened, almost 

 smooth, unsculptured, its pubescence long, pale, silky ; head, from above, more 

 transverse ; propodeum with more even reticulation, without trace of a dull bloom 

 and more convex ; median field of tergite 2 with vague but coarse rugose-puncta- 

 tion ; larger, ca. 3-5 mm. ......... alee sp. n. 



Brazil: Nova Teutonia, n.x.1937, * ?■ tne TYPE, (Plaumann). Type in the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



This species has tergite 3 more convex than the next species and much more con- 

 vex than in any of the Old World species, (but cf . African genus Buluha de Saeger) ; 



i9 Microgaster sons Wilkinson, 1932 : 87. 

 Protomicroplitis sons (Wilkinson) comb. n. 



