124 HYMENOPTERA 



C. PENETRATOR. Smith, TVans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 2. 



Head and thorax black; legs and abdomen ferruginous. The 

 orbits of the eyes slightly interrupted at their summit ; the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus and the mandibles yellow ; a ferruginous spot 

 on the scape of the antennse in front. Thorax : the margins of the 

 prothorax and the tegulse yellow ; the anterior and intermediate coxae 

 and trochanters yellow in front ; wings sub-hyaline and iridescent ; 

 the stigma ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining ; the apical 

 margin of the first segment yellow. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Dunedin. 



Sub-Eamily — Ophionin^. 

 Abdomen petiolate, compressed at the extremity. 



Genus-OPHION. 



Fabricius. 



Antennae setaceous, as long as the body, the joints rather longer 

 than broad, and obliquely truncated. Wings ivithout an areole ; the 

 large cell receives on its posterior nervure (or the middle nervure) 

 the two recurrent nervures. Legs slender. Abdomen compressed and 

 sharp from the third segment ; the two first segments, and especially 

 the first, are broader behind than in front. The ovipositor is so short 

 that the sexes are not easily recognized. The tip of the abdomen is 

 truncated in the females, and oblique in the males. 



O. LUTEUs. L., Syst. Nat., 2,957, 55 (Ichneumon.) . Fabr., Systema 

 Piezatorum, p. 130, 



Fulvous ; thorax striated ; antennae fulvous ; wings broad ; stigma 

 fulvous. 



O. iNUTiLis. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 478. 



Female. Rufo-ferruginous ; the basal portion of the antennae, to 

 the extent of about one-third of their length, ferruginous. The pro- 

 thorax, the scutellum, and the tibiae and tarsi paler than the rest of 

 the thorax ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures fuscous, 

 more or less ferruginous at the base of the wing; the stigma pale 

 rufo-ferruginous. Abdomen rufo-fuscous towards the apex. 



Length, 4? lines. 



