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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.96 
  

  

  7. 
  Genus 
  OPHION 
  Fabricius 
  ^ 
  

  

  Plate 
  49, 
  Figure 
  3; 
  Plate 
  50, 
  Figure 
  21; 
  Plate 
  52, 
  Figures 
  41, 
  43; 
  Plate 
  53, 
  

   Figure 
  51; 
  Plate 
  55, 
  Figures 
  73, 
  81; 
  Plate 
  56, 
  Figure 
  94 
  

  

  Ophion 
  Fabricius, 
  Entoraologia 
  systematica 
  . 
  . 
  ,, 
  Suppl., 
  pp. 
  210, 
  235, 
  1798; 
  

  

  Systenia 
  Piezatorum, 
  p. 
  130, 
  1804. 
  [Genotype: 
  Ichneumon 
  luteus 
  Linnaeus. 
  

  

  By 
  designation 
  of 
  Curtis, 
  British 
  entomology, 
  vol. 
  13, 
  p. 
  600, 
  1836.] 
  

   Paniscus 
  Schrank, 
  Fauna 
  Boica, 
  p. 
  316, 
  1802. 
  [Genotype: 
  Ichneumon 
  luieus 
  

  

  Linnaeus.] 
  Monobasic. 
  

   Neophion 
  Morley, 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  Ichneumonidae 
  based 
  on 
  the 
  collection 
  in 
  

  

  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History), 
  pt. 
  1, 
  p. 
  30, 
  1912. 
  [Genotype: 
  

  

  Neophion 
  crassus 
  Morley. 
  By 
  designation 
  of 
  Viereck, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  

  

  Bull. 
  83, 
  p. 
  100, 
  1914.J 
  

  

  To 
  give 
  a 
  bibliography 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  would 
  be 
  to 
  list 
  the 
  works, 
  

   dealing 
  with 
  the 
  genus, 
  of 
  virtually 
  all 
  the 
  more 
  prominent 
  students 
  

   of 
  the 
  Ichneumonidae 
  since 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  Gravenhorst. 
  Suffice 
  it 
  here 
  

   to 
  cite 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  useful 
  works 
  for 
  the 
  identification 
  of 
  species: 
  

   European 
  species, 
  Schmiedeknecht, 
  Opuscula 
  iclmeumonologica, 
  fasc. 
  

   4, 
  pp. 
  1334-1348, 
  1908, 
  and 
  supplement, 
  fasc. 
  24, 
  pp. 
  24-47, 
  1935. 
  

   American 
  species, 
  Hooker, 
  Trans. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  38, 
  pp. 
  21-50, 
  

   1912. 
  Species 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  as 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History, 
  Morley, 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  Ichneumonidae 
  based 
  on 
  

   the 
  collection 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History), 
  pt. 
  1, 
  pp. 
  

   53-66, 
  1912. 
  Eastern 
  Asiatic 
  species, 
  Uchida, 
  Journ. 
  Fac. 
  Agr. 
  

   Hokkaido 
  Imp. 
  Univ., 
  vol. 
  21, 
  pt. 
  2, 
  pp. 
  204-211, 
  1928. 
  New 
  Neo- 
  

   tropical 
  species, 
  Szepligeti, 
  Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hungarici, 
  vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  133, 
  

   1906. 
  Central 
  American 
  species, 
  Cameron, 
  Biologia 
  Centrali- 
  

   Americana, 
  Hymenoptera, 
  vol. 
  1, 
  p. 
  293, 
  1906. 
  The 
  keys 
  in 
  these 
  

   works 
  fall 
  far 
  short 
  of 
  including 
  all 
  the 
  described 
  species, 
  and 
  recourse 
  

   must 
  be 
  had 
  to 
  the 
  many 
  scattered 
  descriptions 
  of 
  species. 
  

  

  Under 
  strict 
  interpretation 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Code 
  of 
  Zoological 
  

   Nomenclature, 
  Paniscus 
  Schrank 
  is 
  isogenotypic, 
  and 
  therefore 
  

   synonymous, 
  with 
  Ophion 
  Fabricius. 
  Believing, 
  however, 
  that 
  

   stability 
  of 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  mvolved 
  would 
  be 
  best 
  

   served 
  by 
  the 
  preservation 
  of 
  the 
  names 
  in 
  their 
  traditional 
  senses, 
  

   I 
  some 
  years 
  ago 
  * 
  attempted, 
  I 
  fear 
  rather 
  unsuccessfully, 
  to 
  show 
  

   that 
  Schrank's 
  conception 
  of 
  Paniscus 
  was 
  based 
  on 
  the 
  excellent 
  

   figures 
  in 
  DeGeer's 
  "Memoires 
  pour 
  Servir 
  a 
  I'Histoire 
  des 
  Insectes," 
  

   1771, 
  which 
  almost 
  certainly 
  illustrate 
  the 
  insect 
  long 
  knowTi 
  as 
  

   Paniscus 
  cephalotes 
  Holmgren. 
  The 
  alternative 
  was 
  to 
  synonymize 
  

   Paniscus 
  with 
  Ophion 
  and 
  substitute 
  for 
  Paniscus 
  in 
  the 
  traditional 
  

  

  ' 
  Since 
  this 
  synonymy 
  was 
  written 
  Dr. 
  Henry 
  K. 
  Townes 
  has 
  published 
  his 
  monumental 
  "A 
  Catalogue 
  

   and 
  Reclassification 
  of 
  the 
  Nearctic 
  Ichneumonidae" 
  (Mem. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  No. 
  11, 
  1944^5), 
  on 
  p. 
  730 
  of 
  

   which, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  synonyms 
  listed 
  here, 
  he 
  also 
  synonymizes 
  Oenophion 
  Felt 
  and 
  Ophiogastrella 
  

   Brues. 
  In 
  my 
  opinion 
  the 
  venational 
  characters 
  by 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  separated 
  these 
  two 
  genera 
  from 
  Ophion 
  

   are 
  of 
  much 
  more 
  than 
  specific 
  significance. 
  

  

  * 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  64, 
  art. 
  20, 
  p. 
  21, 
  1924. 
  

  

  