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Opliion pallipes Br. 



Ophion pallipesBrMWe, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., IV, p. 144, n. 15..1846. 

 " " Taschenberg, Zeitschr. f. d. Ges. Naturw., 12, p. 



427, n. 7 1875. 



" pallidipes Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 197 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34me Fasc, p. 32, 



n. 107 1905. 



Dark ferruginous, tibice and tarsi red, wings flavid ; base of meta- 

 thorax hollowed out. 



Length, 20 mm. 



It is dark ferruginous with the legs and tarsi yellowish-red, and the 

 segments of the abdomen bordered with black from the third. The 

 hooks of the tarsi are black ; the trochanters and trochantines yellow- 

 ish-red ; the wings are washed with yellow, with the nervures brown 

 and the stigma yellowish-red ; the median discocubital nervure is 

 nearly biangular with an internal prolongation ; the discoidal cellule 

 is nearly as broad as long. 



The lobes of the mesothorax are distinct, a little raised and slightly 

 canaliculate. The metathorax is surmounted by two slightly sinuous 

 projecting lines (carinae) which divide it into three regions, of which 

 the first is strongly excavated at the base with a longitudinal furrow, 

 the second divided into three parts by two parallel, longitudinal lines, 

 the third and last slightly longitudinally wrinkled. The first region 

 alone is distinctly punctured. 



Type. — Location unknown. 



This description seems to lack the distinctive characters 

 necessary for its recognition. 



Distribution. — Brazil (Prov. des Mines). 



Ophion pennator Fabr. 



Ophion pennator Fahricius, Syst. Piez., p. 135, n. 24 1804. 



Olivier, Encycl. Meth., Ins., VII, p. 513, n. 30... 1811. 

 Ichneumon pellator Thunberg, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 



VIII, p. 262 1822. 



" " Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 



IX, p. 314: 1824. 



pennaf or Cvesson, Trans. Amer, Ent. Soc, VI, p. 209.. 1877. 



Ophion " Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 197, Amer., 



Georgia 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34ine Fasc, p. 32, 



n. 118 1905. 



Rufous ; head and anus black, wings fuscous. 



Habitat. — Amer. Merid. 



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