NEW ICHNEUMON-FLIES CUSHMAN 367 



Genus OPHION Fabricius 



OPHION BERMUDENSIS, new species 



Of the Neotropical species keyed out by Morley "^ the present 

 species runs best to mfricafus BruUe, but that is a much larger and 

 paler species. 



Female. — Length 11 mm., antennae 11 mm. 



Head thin, the temples strongly receding, convex; posterior ocelli 

 nearly touching the eyes and separated from each other by somewhat 

 less than the diameter of an ocellus ; eyes very large, nearly reaching 

 Ijases of mandibles, strongly emarginate witliin; face below very 

 slightly broader than frons: convex medially, clypeal foveae deep, 

 clypeus barely extending below lower tangent of eyes, its apex 

 broadly arcuate and with a narrow refiexed margin : mandibles stout, 

 barely a half longer than broad at base; antenna 47-jointed, mod- 

 erately stout, tapering at apex, all joints of flagellum distinctly 

 longer tlian thick, the first joint nmch less than twice as long as 

 second. 



Thorax stout, about n half longer than deep; mesoscutum finely 

 iind sparsely punctate, notaulices distinct and broad anteriorly, ob- 

 soletely indicated well back; scutellum convex, sparsely punctate, 

 margined basally; mesopleuron granularly opaque and indefinitely 

 rugulose below, polished and sparsely punctate above; propodeum 

 •opaque, granularly rugulose, completely areolated except that basal 

 median area is not defined and the apical carina is interrupted be- 

 tween the median carinae, the basal carina weaker laterally, as are 

 also the lateral carinae (in some of the other specimens these weak 

 carinae are even weaker almost to the extent of being absent). 



Legs stout, the hind femur barely twice as long as roxa and hardly 

 six times as long as deep : apical joint of hind tarsus not longer than 

 fourth. 



Wings: Basal abscissa of radius straight, not thickened at base, 

 ajjical abscissa gently curved and about two and one-half times as 

 long as basal abscissa; basal vein straight; first recurrent nearly 

 erect, ramellus reaching fully halfway to basal vein; intercubitus, 

 second abscissa of cubitus, and second recurrent nearly in the ratio 

 of 1:2:4; nervulus slightly antef ureal ; radiella strongly curved at 

 base, basal abscissa nearly as long as apical abscissa; intercubitella 

 about a third as long as basal abscissa of radiella; nervellus strongly 

 broken at or a little above middle, reclivous, its upper abscissa 

 })erpendicular. 



' Revision of the Ichueumonidiie based on the collet'tion iu the British Museum (Natural 

 History), pt. 1. p. 54. 191-J. 



