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It is reddish ferruginous, with the head and scutellum sulphur-yellow 

 and the face reddish ferruginous. The abdomen is brown, on the 

 lower edges of the segments yellowish ; the wings have brown ner- 

 vures, the stigma part red and part brown ; the median nervure (dis- 

 cocubital) biangular and the discoidal cell longer than high. The 

 metathorax is punctured in front, reddish behind ; its primary region 

 at the posterior edge emarginate in the middle ; oblique on each side 

 in the manner of very open stripes. A more or less complete arched 

 sinuous line crosses the second region. 



Type. — Location unknown. 



I have not seen a specimen which meets the requirements 

 of this description, and can only give a translation of the 

 original description, for it has not since been mentioned 

 except in catalogue. 



Distribution . — Brazil . 



Opliion geniinatus Say. 



Ophion geminatus Say, Contrib. Maclur. Lye. Phila., II, p. 76, n. 3.. 1828. 

 " Comp. Writ. Th. Say, Ent., I, p. 379, n. 3..18S9. 

 Paniscus geminatus Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., I, p. 364, 



n. 26 1863. 



" " Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, IV, p. 



171, 9cf 1872. 



This species was placed in the Genus Paniscus by Norton 

 and his action has been accepted by all writers. It is com- 

 mon throughout the United States and superficially resembles 

 some of the Ophions, but may be readily separated by the 

 presence of an areolet in the anterior wings. Norton states 

 that this species and chloris Oliv., 1828, are synonymous,; 

 but Dalla Torre preserves both species. 



OpMon glaucopterus (Linn.) Fabr. 



Ichneumon glaucopterus Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10 a, I, p. 566, n. 



S3 1758. 



Linne, Syst. Nat., 12 ed., I, 2, p. 938, n. 



57 1767. 



Ophion " Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst., p. 236, n. 4. ..1798. 



Olivier, Encycl. Meth., Ins., VIII, p. 510, 



n. 8 1811. 



" " Gravenhorst, Nova Acta. Acad. Nat. Avios., 



IX, p. 295 1828. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVIII. 



