164 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



Paniscus glaucopterus Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ., Ill, p. 633, n. 



108 1829. 



Opheltes " Holmgren, Svenk. Vet. Akad. Handl., II, 2, 



p. 8 (Oph.), p. 30, n. 1 1858. 



Opheletes " Provancher, Faun. Ent. Can., Hyra., p. 



359, figs. 38, 39 1883. 



Opheltes " Cresson, Syn. Hym. N, Amer., p. 202 1887. 



Morley, The Entomologist, XLII, p. 137, v.. 1909. 



Habitat. — Amer. bor. ; Europe. 



This species has long been recognized as a member of the 

 Genus Opheltes. 



Ophion holosericeiis Tasch. 



Ophion holosericeus Taschenberg, Zeitschr. Ges. Naturw., 46, p. 



427 1875. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 192 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34me Fasc, p. 



31, n. 103 1905. 



Sericeous, rufous ; scutellutn flavous ; apex of abdomen darker. 



Length, 19 mm. 



A fine white coat of hair covers the whole body, of which the red 

 ground color is changed by the reflected light of the place ; the apex 

 of the abdomen is indistinctly, especially along the lower part, with 

 brown ; the scutellum, and also the posterior part of the head is fre- 

 quently paler (more yellowish). The metanotum bears far forward a 

 transverse carina, angularly broken in the middle, and running from 

 there evenly back ; behind this a weak parallel transverse carina, as 

 well as median longitudinal lines which run back from the apex of the 

 angle in the anterior transverse carina and gradually disappear. Below 

 this is also a lateral carina running from the outer end of the stigma 

 to the apex of the thorax, and a lateral boundary to mark the poste- 

 rior half of the sloping part. From the hinder border of the large cell 

 (discocubital) springs an appendix. 



Specimens lying before me diflfer from the preceding [C pallipes'] 

 through a slightly redder color and striking pubescence as well as 

 through a much weaker posterior transverse carina on the metathorax. 



I do not recognize this as any species with which I am 

 acquainted. 



Type. — Location unknown. 

 Distribution. — Parana, Brazil. 



