22 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



ferruginous, the stigma yellow. Abdomen darker than the thorax, becoming fusco-ferru- 

 ginous towards the apex. Female, length 7 lines. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. 



The yellow markings are much brighter in some examples than in others, and the 

 abdomen also varies in brightness. 







62. OPHION DENTATUS. 



Femina. O. rufus, nietathorace lineis elevatis transversis, later ibusque tmidentatis. 



Pale ferruginous ; eyes, ocelli, and tips of the mandibles black ; wings hyaline and 

 iridescent ; the mesothorax smooth and shining, the metathorax with two arcuate transverse 

 carinae, the second being at the margin of the posterior truncation and terminating laterally in 

 an acute angle or tooth. Abdomen falcate, smooth, shining, and with a fine short 

 sericeous pubescence, or pile. Female, length 8 lines. 

 . Sind valley, Kashmir. Taken in August. 



63. OPHION ALBOPICTTJS. 

 Femina. O. rufus, capite, scutello, lineis 4 dorsalibus maculisque lateralibm albis. 



Head white ; eyes and ocelli black, the antennse and mandibles, rufous. Thorax rufous ; 

 two central longitudinal lines, the lateral margins, the scutellum and numerous spots 

 on the sides beneath the wings, white ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures 

 ferruginous, the stigma pale rufous. Abdomen rufous, with some pale whitish spots at the 

 sides towards the apex ; the two basal segments beneath white. Female, length 6 lines. 



Sab.' Neighbourhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. 



