﻿GENERIC 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  OPHIONINI 
  CUSHMAN 
  453 
  

  

  segment 
  slightly 
  decurved, 
  spiracle 
  at 
  about 
  apical 
  third; 
  tergite 
  2 
  a 
  

   little 
  more 
  than 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  at 
  base. 
  

  

  Ferruginous; 
  vertex, 
  frons, 
  subalar 
  tubercles 
  and 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  

   sometimes 
  the 
  notaulices, 
  3'ello\vish; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  radial 
  cell 
  in- 
  

   fumate 
  basally 
  and 
  along 
  anterior 
  margin, 
  stigma 
  and 
  costa 
  ferru- 
  

   ginous, 
  other 
  veins 
  blackish. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  San 
  Jos6 
  del 
  Cabo, 
  Baja 
  California, 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  IloUdype 
  and 
  poraiypes. 
  — 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  JM. 
  No. 
  57G07. 
  

  

  Paratypes. 
  — 
  Califurnia 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences; 
  American 
  Museum 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History 
  (New 
  York); 
  Cornell 
  University. 
  

  

  Nine 
  females, 
  the 
  holotype 
  and 
  two 
  others 
  from 
  the 
  tj^pe 
  locality; 
  

   two 
  from 
  Phoenix, 
  Ariz., 
  April 
  19, 
  1933, 
  R. 
  II. 
  Crandall; 
  one 
  from 
  14 
  

   miles 
  east 
  of 
  Oracle, 
  Ariz., 
  July 
  27, 
  1924, 
  J. 
  O. 
  Martin; 
  Kits 
  Peak, 
  

   Rincon, 
  Baboquivari 
  Mountains, 
  Ariz., 
  August 
  1, 
  1946, 
  4,050 
  ft.; 
  

   one 
  from 
  Congress, 
  Ariz., 
  May 
  6, 
  1902, 
  Oslar; 
  one 
  from 
  Yerington, 
  

   Lyon 
  County. 
  Nev., 
  July 
  29, 
  1909. 
  A 
  headless 
  male 
  from 
  Yerington, 
  

   Nev., 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  Cornell 
  University 
  probably 
  belongs 
  here, 
  

   but 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  poor 
  condition 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  typo 
  series. 
  

  

  20. 
  Genus 
  GENOPHION 
  Felt 
  

  

  Plate 
  50, 
  Figure 
  24; 
  Plate 
  55, 
  Figure 
  79; 
  Plate 
  56, 
  Figure 
  95 
  

  

  Genophion 
  Felt, 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Mus. 
  Bull. 
  76 
  (19th 
  Rep. 
  State 
  Ent.), 
  p. 
  123, 
  

   1904. 
  [Genotype: 
  (Genophion 
  gilletli 
  Fe\t) 
  = 
  Genophion 
  costalis 
  (Cresson). 
  

   By 
  original 
  designation.] 
  

  

  Hooker 
  '* 
  synonymized 
  Genophion 
  gilleffi 
  Felt 
  with 
  Ophion 
  costalis 
  

   Cresson, 
  thereby 
  inferentially 
  synonymizing 
  the 
  genus 
  with 
  Ophion 
  

   although 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  list 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  synonymy 
  of 
  Ophion. 
  In 
  my 
  opinion 
  

   the 
  genus 
  is 
  distinct. 
  

  

  Head 
  (pi. 
  50, 
  fig. 
  24): 
  Thick; 
  temples 
  strongly 
  convex; 
  occiput 
  

   concave, 
  carina 
  usually 
  complete 
  though 
  rarely 
  obsolete 
  below; 
  eyes 
  

   narrow, 
  not 
  bulging, 
  shallowly, 
  broadly 
  emarginate; 
  ocelli 
  small 
  to 
  

   rather 
  large, 
  but 
  never 
  nearly 
  touching 
  eyes; 
  malar 
  space 
  distinct, 
  

   frequently 
  very 
  long; 
  clyj)eus 
  rather 
  flat, 
  large, 
  broadly 
  truncate, 
  

   labnim 
  prominent; 
  mandible 
  narrow, 
  evenly 
  curved, 
  not 
  much 
  

   broader 
  at 
  base 
  than 
  at 
  apex; 
  antenna 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  body, 
  

   slightly 
  thickened 
  before 
  apex. 
  

  

  Thorax: 
  Stout; 
  pronotum 
  rather 
  long 
  medially, 
  with 
  transverse 
  

   groove 
  shallow, 
  pronotal 
  sinus 
  broad, 
  exposing 
  spiracular 
  sclerite; 
  

   mososcutum 
  strongly 
  convex 
  in 
  profdc, 
  notaulices 
  obsolete; 
  scutellum 
  

   large, 
  subquadratc, 
  strongly 
  convex, 
  usually 
  margined 
  basally; 
  meso- 
  

   ple\iron 
  with 
  speculum 
  weakly 
  defined; 
  prepeeloral 
  carina 
  strong 
  

  

  » 
  Tmns. 
  Amcr. 
  Ent. 
  Poc., 
  vol. 
  38, 
  p. 
  2fl, 
  1912. 
  

  

  