Tijdschrift voor entomologie . aired, hair-implantations scale-like; structure of midlobe between notauH as in P. demades;scutellum strongly convex, densely hairy, especially at sides; propleurae smooth with veryfine sculpture. Tl entirely crenulated; T2 with deep basal foveae; striation of T2 over wholewidth of tergite and extending over half of tergite; T3 and T4 smooth with a few deeply im-planted hairs; T5 as in P. demades; T6 smooth. Black, shiny species. Antennae black, A2 api-cally lighter. Legs blackish brown, tarsi somewhat lighter. Length female mm (figs. 39a—39c). — Scutellum sp


Tijdschrift voor entomologie . aired, hair-implantations scale-like; structure of midlobe between notauH as in P. demades;scutellum strongly convex, densely hairy, especially at sides; propleurae smooth with veryfine sculpture. Tl entirely crenulated; T2 with deep basal foveae; striation of T2 over wholewidth of tergite and extending over half of tergite; T3 and T4 smooth with a few deeply im-planted hairs; T5 as in P. demades; T6 smooth. Black, shiny species. Antennae black, A2 api-cally lighter. Legs blackish brown, tarsi somewhat lighter. Length female mm (figs. 39a—39c). — Scutellum sparsely hairy pelias Walker, 1835 Antennae slender; head times as broad as long; OOL : POL : LOL = 5 : 12 : 5; fronssmooth, very finely alutaceous; ocellar region transversely striated. Notauli incomplete;mesoscutum as in P. orcus; propleurae finely coriaceous; scutellum strongly convex, sparselyhairy. Tl crenulated, the r^O carinae conspicuous; T2 with deep, striated basal foveae, with- Vlug: Types of Platygastndae 197. Figs. 39—44. a, antenna; b, head (dorsal view); c, metasoma (dorsal view). 39a—c, Platygaster orcus (lecto-type); 40a—c, P. pelias (lectotype); 41a—c, P. nisus (lectotype); 42a—c, P. manto (paralectotvpe no. 1154 inNMI); 43a—c, P. pedasus (lectotype); 44a—c, P. oscus (lectotype). 198 Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, deel 127, afl. 9, 1984 (1985) out striation on midlobe in between; striation of T2 extending to half of tergite; T3 and T4with a few hairs, not particularly deeply implanted; T5 as in P. demades; T6 smooth. Black,shiny species. Antennae black, A2 somewhat lighter. Fore legs dark brown, tibiae proximallyand apically and tarsi lighter; middle and hind legs black, tarsi somewhat lighter. Length fe-male mm (figs. 40a—40c). Remarks. — I have reared series of P. pelias from Lasioptera rubi Heeg, on Ruhus sp. col-lected in Bitsche, France, the type locality of Platygaster ruborum Kieffer, 1916 (sensu Hug-gert, 1973). P. pelias is


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