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56. Mesostenus albopictus. 
Mesostenus albopictus, Smith, Trans, Ent. Soc., 1876, p. 477, 
pl, iv., fig. 1. 
i North Island (Enys.)—B.M. 
Ophionides. 
57? Ophion luteus. 
Ichneumon luteus, Linn. Syst. Nat., i, p. 566, n. 51 (1758) ; 
| Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 34.1, n. 77 (1775). 
New Zealand (Fabricius).* 
58. Ophion inutilis. 
| Ophion inutils, Smith. Trans, Ent. Soc. 1876, p. 478, l. c. 
121576, Pp: 2. 
| New Zealand (Wakefield ; Hutton).—B.M. 
59. Ophion ferrugineus. 
Ophion ferrugineus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 2. 
Otago (Hutton).—B.M, 
60. Ophion perigrinus. 
Ophion perigrinus, Smith. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1876, p. 478. 
New Zealand (Wakefield).—B.M. 
61. Ophion skeltonii, n. s. 
Exp. al. 10 1. ; long. corp. 7% 1. 
Shining castaneous ; face, clypeus, and vertex as far as a 
| narrow line behind the eyes yellow ; eyes, ocelli, extreme points 
| of the mandibles and claws black ; antennze wholly castaneous, 
| and a castaneous dot on each side at the base of the clypeus ; the 
lower partsofthe face andthe extremeback of thehead are alsoof 
| the same colour. Wings iridescent, with piceous nervures, and 
finely speckled with brown: stigma large, yellowish ; below it is 
|}around darker yellow spot in the upper part of the interno- 
cubital cell, where it begins to narrow; and halfway between 
this and the extremity of the cell is a curved yellowish line. 
Blenheim (Skelton).—B.M. 
62. Ophion insularis, n. s. 
Exp. al. 13 1.; long. corp. 8 1, 
| Closely allied to O. skeltonzz, but less shining ; the head and 
ocelli are concolorous, except the eyes, which are liver-coloured, 
and narrowly edged within and behind with dull yellow. Wings 
nearly as in ske/tonzz, but the spot below the stigma is larger, more 
yellow, and followed by a small darker spot close to the upper 
part of the curved line, which is piceous, like the other nervures. 
New Zealand (Sinclair)—B.M. 
__ * Fabricius mentions New Zealand among the localities for this common Euro- 
| = species, but he probably mistook one of the indigenous New Zealand species 
or it. ? 
