CHARLES W. HOOKER. 47 



Ophion biangularis Tasch. 

 Ophion diangularis Tasch., Zeitschr. ges. Nat., Vol. XL VI, p. 432, 



Lagoa Santa, Brazil, 9 1875. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 188, listed 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym.,34nieFasc.,p. 31, 



n. 91, listed 1806. 



Testaceous with head much paler, apex of abdomen infuscated ; meta- . 

 notum, areolated. Wings hyaline, stigm,a fuscous, base of wings and 

 squamula testaceous. 



Length, 16 mm. 



Weakly pubescent. The metanotum is divided by two ridges into 

 three equal stripes ; through the middle and hind areas goes, divided by 

 two longitudinal ridges, a somewhat wedge-shaped, narrow, longitu- 

 dinal area. On the clear wings the insipid yellow stigma and back- 

 ground stand out sharply against the dark veins. The hind border of 

 the large cell is broken in the middle nearly at right angles and fur- 

 nished with a nerve branch, then in the middle of its outer part nearly 

 broken again by a very blunt angle. The inner part of the radius is 

 straight. 



I have seen only one specimen of this species. 



Type. — 9 . Location unknown. 



Distribution. — Lagoa Santa, Brazil ; Cordoba, Mexico ; 

 one <f U. S. National Museum, Cordoba, Vera Cruz, Mexico 

 (March 26, 1908). 



Ophion abnormis Felt. 

 Ophion abnormum Felt, N. Y. State Mus., Bull. 76 (nineteenth 



Reprt. State Ent.), p. 121, pi. 2, n. 5 1904. 



Eremotylus felti Viereck, Kans. Acad. Sci., XIX, p. 264 1905. 



Flavofulvous varied with ferruginous ; head large, face broad ; eyes 

 small, distant from base of mandibles ; discocubital vein with more or 

 less distinct appendix ; som£thnes with an abnormal stub of a vein ex- 

 tending back into the third discoidal cell. 



Length, 13-18 mm. ; wing, 12-15 mm. ; spread, 26-32 mm. ; antennas, 

 12-17 mm , 



Head flavous tinged with fulvous, large, broad; eyes small, narrow, 

 only slightly emarginate, distant from the base of the mandibles ; 

 ocelli large, prominent, well separated, distant from the tops of the 

 eyes; antennae fulvous, short, not quite as long as the body; face 

 broad, clypeal fovese deep ; mandibles strong, bidentate, tipped with 

 black ; thorax flavofulvous marked with ferruginous ; mesonotum with 

 three longitudinal ferruginous stripes ; parapsidal furrows distinct only 

 in front ; scutellum small, rounded, often flavous ; pleurae more or less 



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