﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliii. 
  (1899), 
  No. 
  3. 
  101 
  

  

  Ophion 
  areolatus, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Long. 
  15 
  mm. 
  

  

  The 
  orbits 
  broadly 
  and 
  the 
  vertex 
  pale 
  lemon-yellow; 
  

   the 
  face 
  and 
  occiput 
  ferruginous, 
  suffused 
  with 
  yellow. 
  

   The 
  face 
  and 
  clypeus 
  finely, 
  but 
  distinctly, 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   the 
  clypeus 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  furrow 
  from 
  the 
  face, 
  and 
  with 
  

   a 
  deep 
  oblique 
  furrow 
  at 
  the 
  sides. 
  Mandibles 
  smooth, 
  

   and 
  yellow 
  at 
  the 
  base; 
  the 
  middle 
  punctured; 
  the 
  teeth 
  

   black. 
  Thorax 
  with 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  scutellum 
  of 
  a 
  distinct 
  

   yellow 
  hue; 
  the 
  furrows 
  bordering 
  the 
  middle 
  lobe 
  of 
  the 
  

   mesonotum 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  wide, 
  deep, 
  distinct. 
  Scutellum 
  

   smooth; 
  the 
  sides 
  not 
  carinate; 
  the 
  postscutellum 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  carinate 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  its 
  apex 
  with 
  an 
  oblique 
  

   slope; 
  its 
  sides 
  oblique, 
  becoming 
  wider 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex. 
  The 
  depression 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  

   wide, 
  deep, 
  semicircular; 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  transverse 
  

   keel, 
  from 
  which 
  run 
  two 
  stouter 
  keels 
  to 
  the 
  apex; 
  from 
  

   the 
  middle 
  of 
  these 
  runs 
  a 
  stout, 
  curved 
  keel 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  

   of 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  petiole; 
  there 
  being 
  inside 
  this 
  an 
  

   oblique 
  keel 
  ; 
  the 
  whole 
  forming, 
  on 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   segment, 
  a 
  central 
  and 
  two 
  lateral 
  areae. 
  Pleurae 
  shining, 
  

   impunctate; 
  the 
  depression 
  below 
  the 
  tubercles 
  wide 
  and 
  

   deep 
  ; 
  from 
  its 
  apex 
  runs, 
  obliquely 
  to 
  the 
  hinder 
  coxae, 
  a 
  

   distinct 
  furrow, 
  widest 
  and 
  deepest 
  at 
  the 
  apical 
  half. 
  

   Wings 
  clear 
  hyaline 
  ; 
  the 
  stigma 
  rufo-fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  nervures 
  

   black 
  ; 
  the 
  transverse 
  median 
  nervure 
  is 
  received 
  on 
  the 
  

   inner 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  transverse 
  basal 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  recurrent 
  

   nervure 
  is 
  received 
  distinctly 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   basal 
  abscissa 
  of 
  the 
  radius; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  cubital 
  

   cellule 
  being 
  thus 
  longer 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  

   side. 
  

  

  A 
  distinct 
  species. 
  Easily 
  known, 
  inter 
  alia, 
  from 
  O. 
  

   fuscomaculatns, 
  by 
  the 
  areolated 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  

   segment. 
  

  

  G 
  

  

  