14 TENTHREDINIILK. 



2. Abia brevicornis. 

 (Plate XVI. fig. 2.) 



Abia brevicornis, Leach, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 114 (1817). 



Cimbex splendida, Klug, Verh. Berl. fees, naturf. Fr. i. p. 93, n. 9 



(1829). 



Exp. al. 11 lin., long. corp. (i lin. 



Head and thorax bronzy irrcen. Abdomen green, with the in- 

 cisions bluish; body beneath with purple and violet reflections. 

 Antennae rather short, ferruginous; labrum and mandibles ferru- 

 ginous; legs whitish yellow, femora and tarsi stained with ferru- 

 ginous. Wings clear hyaline, with yellow nervures ; a narrow shade 

 below the stigma, and a very slighl cloud on the i fore the 



tip. Male with a velvety-brown patch on the hack of segments 4-7. 



Bah. Central Europe. 



a. §. (Type of species.) W. E. Leach. 



b, c. d $f. ' ' rmany. 1 [i rr J. F. Etuthe. 



3. Abia mutica. 

 Abia mutica, TJioins. Hym. Scand. i. p. 28 I 1-71 ). 



Hob. Sweden. 



4. Abia aurulenta. 



Abia aurulenta, Sichel, Bull. Soc. Ent. I 3), iv. p. lxxvii. i Li 

 Cimbex cuprea, Aich. Zeitsch. Ferdinand. (3), \\. p. 30fi | L870). 



Hob. Piedmont. 



5. Abia fulgens. 



Abia fulgens, Andri, Spec. Hym. i. p. 30 1 1879). 



Abia aurulenta. Zadd. Schrift. Kbnigsb.ni. p. 272 I L863). 



/lab. Piedmont, Switzerland. &c. 



6. Abia lonicerae. 



Tenthredo lonicerae, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 559, n. -".it (1758); 



(BJaumur, Hist. Ins. v. pi. xiii. figs. 8-10). 

 Abia aigricornis, Leach, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 113, n". 1 (1817); Curt. 



Brit. JEni.il pi. lxxxix. (1825) ; Zadd. Schrift. Ebnigsb. iii. p. 270 



(1863). 

 Cimbex senea, Klug, Verhandl. Berl. Ges. naturf. Fr. i. p. 91, n. 7 



(1829). 

 Abia (Cimbex) senea, VoUenh. Tijdschr. Ent. i. p. 144. pi. v. (1£ 

 Abia bifida, 'Thorns. Jli/m. Scand. i. p. 28 (1871 I. 



