372 iciTisiEUMONiBTr:, 



Eeliquis minor. Caput totum flaviiin anteniiis solis nigris. Ala? 

 tola) hyaliiuc. Abdonien breve, tnincatuni." (Fahrlrius.) 



Olivier (loc. cit.) simply copies the short diagnosis of l-'abrieius, 

 given above, adding only tliat the species is smaller than Oplnon 

 2Mnnator, F. ; th.'it the anteiinaB are black ; the head and remainder 

 of the body flavous ; the abdomen short and truncate ; the wings 

 entirely trans|)arent : and that it is found in the " East Indies." 

 To this Thunberg adds nothing. It is certainly not an Ophion in 

 the present acceptation of the genus ; possibly it is to be sought 

 among the PoRizo>rinES. 



"Habitat in India oriental!. Uom. Daldorff, Mus. doni. de 

 Sehestedt."— FoA. 



" Bred from AoctiHt. perslcuriai by Vallut." — iMdJa Torre. 



209. Ophion trifngularemaculatiis, Mota. 



Ojihion trimiqnlare7)iarvlati(s, Motsohulskv, lUill, Soc. Nat. Moscon, 



18(53, p. ;;6 ( J et ?$). 



A slender, narrow and shining species. Head subdeplanate, 

 strongly nitidulous and black, with the eyes large, convex and 

 infuscate; ocelli very distinct. Antennce blackish, ba.sally pale 

 testaceous and a little shorter than the body, Avith the basal joint 

 ovately inflated and the second very short, subtrausverse. Thorax 

 black, elongate, attenuate and narrower than the head ; mesonotum 

 subglobose, glabrous and longitudinally impressed obliquely on 

 either side ; metanotum obtuse. Ahdomen snbparallel-sided, black, 

 with a triangular pale testaceous discal mark on each of tlie three 

 central segments ; basal segment elongate, subclaviform ; anus 

 compressed and hardly dilated. Lec/s pale testaceous, with the 

 liind tibiae intnscate, their tarsi black, and their femora sub- 

 inci'assate. Wings with stigma and nervures black. 



Length 4 millim. 



Ceilo:n : JN'uwara Eliya and Mt. Patannas {Motschulsky). 



Its author adds that the breadth of the head is a third of 

 a line ; and indicates Mbat he considers may be the female, 

 differing in having the apices only of the abdominal segments 

 with testaceous margins. It is certainly not here placed in its 

 correct genus, which is impossible of determination from the 

 inadequate description. 



Genus PLEUEONEUROPHION, Ashm. 

 Pleuroveuwjhiou, Ashniead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. 1900, p. 80. 



Labrum of normal length ; ocelli not small. Internal cubital 

 nervure sharply geniculate ; nervelet distinct; first cubital cell 

 with no corneous marks ; radius incrassate, and not bisinuate, 



