4 TEXTHKEDINTH/E. 



7. Cimbex ariana. 



(Plate I. fig. 3.) 



Exp. al. 1 poll. 2 lin., long. corp. 8 lin. 



Ft male. Black ; antenna?, jaws, tibiae, and tarsi yellow. Abdomen 

 yellow, front margin of all the segments, except the two last, black, 

 'more broadly in the middle than at the sides; under surface of 

 abdomen yellowish. Wings vitreous; fore wings with the costal 

 half clouded with deep yellow. 



Nearest to C. axillaris, from which the black bead and scapulae 

 will at once separate it, independently of other differences; but 

 much more slender than any described species of the minis. 



Hah. North India. 

 a. §. (Type of species. ) North India. ('apt. Laing. 



8. Cinibex sibirica. 

 (Plate 1. fig. 1.) 



Exp. al. 2 poll., long. corp. 1<> lin. 



Female. Allied to 0. violacea, but with the abdomen rather 

 shorter and broader. Black ; head and thorax with short bristly 

 hairs. Antenna) castaueous, with the basal joinl reddish brown ; 

 jaws reddish ; scapula' black, slightly edged with tawny, or wholly 

 tawny ; in the latter case there is a tawny spot on the hack of the 

 head on each side, behind the eyes. Thorax sometimes 1 dged behind 

 with tawny ; metathorax always with a small yellow depression on 

 each side. Segments 3 to <i or 7 banded with lawny, which is 

 frequently more or Less interrupted in the middle; under surface 

 black. Legs tawny: femora black; tibiae darker than the tarsi. 

 Middle and sides of abdomen sometimes marked with yellow 

 the extremity always black beneath, whereas it i^ nearly always 

 yellow in 0. violacea. Wings yellowish hyaline, with yellowish 

 or fuscous nervures ; extremities dusky; costa yellow; stigma 

 dusky, with a large oblique dusky shade below it. as in C. viola* ■ 1. 



This species more resembles Panzer's figure of C. gylvarum, which 



is a variety of the female of ft lutea, than any dinger at proent in 

 the collection of the British Museum. 



Hab. Siberia. 



a. 2- (Type of species.) Angara. Purchased. 



b, c. §. Trans-Baikal. Purcha 



'.!. Cimbex japonica. 

 (Plate XVI. fig. 1.) 



Exp. al. 2 poll. 4 lin.. long. corp. 1 poll. 



