358 [Fekruaky 



OPHION Fab. 



Abdomen compressed, petiolate; segment narrow, spiracle situated behind the 

 middle, terebra short. Wings without areolet; feet slender, nails of tarsi pectinate. 

 A. First auhynarginal cell including membranaceous spots. 

 a. With two spots. 



1. Option purgatus. 



Ophion purgatus Say, Bost. Jour. 1, 239. 9 % . Emmons, N. H. N. Y. Ag. V, 197. 

 Ophion lateralis St Farg. Hym. IV, 141. 



New England, N. Y., Pa., Car.(St. Farg.), Fla., Ind.CSay.), 111. 



2. Ophion cubensis, n. spec. 9 Length 0.68. Br. wings, 1.04 inch. 



Color yellow rufous, with yellow spots, and apex of abdomen rufous. Anten- 

 nse slender, toward the end blackish. Head yellow, a spot within ocelli and a 

 short longitudinal line below antennas piceous; eyes more contracted below than 

 in Ophion purgatus; the mesothorax, except the edges and two pale longitudinal 

 lines, all the incisures of the thorax, the pectus and the three apical segments of 

 the abdomen piceous; several spots on pleura, metathorax and the third and fourth 

 segments of abdomen yellow; inner spines of tibise much stronger than exterior; 

 wings hyaline; stigma and costa to tip of wings yellow; inner marginal nervure 

 enlarged from stigma to recurrent nervure; the bulla on second submarginal cross 

 nervure small and slightly removed from end of nervure; inner spot in submargi- 

 nal cell triangular, incurved outwardly, opposite to which is the second smaller 

 crescent-shaped spot. 



Cuba. 



Three specimens examined. (Collection of Baron Osten Sackeu.) 



b. With one spot. 



3. Ophion glabratus. 



Ophion glabratus Say, Bost. Jour. 1, 239. Emmons, N. H. N. Y. Ag. V, 196. 



Indiana (Say). 

 Not seen. 



B. First siihmarffinal cell including no niembraneoua spots. 



•■■). Inner radial wing nerve straightly or evenly curved. 



4. Ophion bilineatus. 



Ophion bilineatus Say, Macl. Lye. p. 75. Bost. Jour. 1, 248. 9 % • 

 N. England, N. Y., Md., la. (Say), L. Sup., L. Winnepeg (Camb. Mu.s.). 



5. Ophion bifoveolatus. 



Ophion bifoveolatus BruUe, Hym. IV, 139. 9 % . 



N. Y., Md., 111., Red River, Ark. (Smith. Inst.). 



The description of this will apply as well in some cases to the hilineatus 

 of Say. But the following points of difference may be noted. The an- 

 tennae not quite as long, eyes smaller and more widely separated, cheeks 

 and back of head much more prominent. The carina crosses the meta- 

 thorax of bilineatus transversely in an unbroken curve, while in this it 

 forms quite a crescent shaped curve in the middle and is sometimes indis- 



