OPHION. 371 



The rough figure in Waterhouse's 'Aid' shows the occiput 

 truncate, the head subbuccate and laterally subparallel behind the 

 eyes ; no pale markings are, however, indicated ; the " white " 

 scutellum is ochreous, and the three discal mesonotal vittae 

 entire and infuscate ; the terebra is not exhibited and the wings 

 are very ample. 



This species appears to differ from 0. quettaensis in little but 

 its distinctive coloration. 



267. OpMon quettaensis, Cam. 



Opliion quettaensis, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1906, p. 275. 



5 . A somewhat small, testaceous and nitidulous species, with 

 flavous markings. Head entirely stramineous, subbuccate and 

 posteriorly as broad and as long as the ey^s, from which the 

 black ocelli are remote ; cheeks somewhat short. Antennce not 

 longer than the body. Thorax : mesonotum laterally and discally 

 flavescent; metanotum strongly infuscate apically, with a very 

 strong anterior and obsolete posterior transverse carina, but no 

 longitudinal carinaa. Scutellum not laterally carinate. Abdomen 

 testaceous, with the sides of the dorsal segments below, and the 

 basal half of the first segment, flavescent ; anus not int'uscate ; 

 basal segment slightly but distinctly constricted a little beyond 

 its centre ; thyridii of second hardly impressed, its spiracles not 

 prominent, but the sides strongly margined throughout. Legs 

 with the tarsal claws nearly straight and elongately pectinate. 

 Wings with the stigma flavescent and the nervures black ; nervelet 

 short ; basal nervure not continuous through the median, and the 

 nervellus intercepted at its centre. 



Length 12 mi Hi in. 



BALUCHISTAN: Quetta, iv. 02 (Col. Nurse). 



Tt/pe in Col. Nurse's collection. 



At once recognised from all other species of this genus by the 

 peculiarly broad vertex (not noted by Cameron), which is almost 

 broader and no narrower longitudinally than the eyes, viewed 

 from above; the internal cubital nervure is a little curved before 

 the nervelet and its apical abscissa, beyond the recurrent nervure, 

 is as long as the submarginal. 



I have taken the above description from the type, which 

 Cameron erroneously records from Peshin. 



268. Ophion generator, F. 



Ophion generator, Fabricius, Syst. Piez. 1804, p. 135 ; Olivier, 



Encycl. M6tli., Ins. viii, 1811, p. 513. 

 Ichneumon r/enerator, Thunberg-, Me"m. Ac. Sc. P^tersb. 1822, 



&259 ; id., M4m. Ac. Sc. Petersb. 1824, p. 307 ; cf. Vallot, 

 eni. Ac. Sc. Dijon, 1836, p. 244. 



" Ophion flavus antennis nigris, alis hyalinis immaculatis. . . . 



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