oPHioN. 371 



The roiigli figure in Walerhouse's 'Aid' shows tlie occiput 

 truiK-ate, the heud Mibbiu-cate and latei-ally subparallel behind the 

 eyes; no pale markings are, however, indicated; the "white" 

 scutellum is ochreous, and the tliree discal mesonotal vittaB 

 entire and infuscate ; the tei'ebra is not exhibited and the wings 

 are very ani[)le. 



This spe<'ies appears to diifer from 0. qaettaensis in little but 

 its distinctive coloration. 



^67. OpMon quettaensis, Cam. 



Ophion quettaensis, Camerou,* Journ. JBombay Nat. Hist. Sec. 

 1906, p. 275. 



2 . A somewhat small, testaceous and nitidulous species, with 

 flavous uiarkuigs. IJead entirely strauiineous, subbuccate and 

 ])ost8riorly as broad and as long as the eyrs, from which the 

 black ocelli are remote ; cheeks somewhat short. Antenna; not 

 longer than the body. Thorax: mesonotum laterally and discally 

 tlav^-scent ; metanutum strongly infuscate apically, with a very 

 strong anterior and obsolete posterior transverse carina, but no 

 longuiidinal cariuae. Scutellum nut laterally carinate. Abdomen 

 testaceous, with the sides of the dorsal segments below, and the 

 basal half of the first segment, flavescent ; anus not infuscate; 

 hasal segment slightly but distinctly constricted a little beyond 

 its centre ; thyridii of second hardly impressed, its spiracles not 

 prominent, but the sides strongly margined throughout. Legs 

 with the tarsal claws nearly straight and elongately pectinate. 

 ^Ybu|s wirh the stig ua flavescent and the nervures black ; nervelet 

 short; basal nervure not <ontinuous through the median, and the 

 uervellus intercepted at its centre. 



Length 12 millnn. 



Baluchistan: Quetta, iv.02 {Col. JSurse). 



Tjipe in Col. Nurse's collection. 



At once recoirnised from all other species of this genus by the 

 peculiarly broad vertex (not noted by Cameron), which is almost 

 broader ami no narro^ver longitudinally than the eyes, viewed 

 from above; the internal cuhital nervure is a little curved before 

 the nervelet and its apical abscissa, beyond the recurrent nervure, 

 is as long as the submarginal. 



I have taken the above description from the type, which 

 Camei'on erroneously records from Peshin. 



268. Ophion generator, F. 



Ophion f/enrrafor, Fahricius, Svst. Piez. 1804, p. 135 ; Olivier, 



Encyc'l. Meth., Ins. viii, ISll.'p 513. ' 

 Ichneumon iienerator, Tliunberp-, Mem. Ac. Sc. P6tersb. 1822, 



p. 259; id, M6in. Ac. Sc. Petersb. 1824, p. 307; cf. Vallot, 



M6ra Ac. Sc. l>ijon, 183(5, p. 244. 



" Ophio'i fla\ us antennis nigris, alls hyalinis immacrdatis. . . . 



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