CIMBEX LUTEA. 13 



Rare in the south of England. Sussex, Windsor, 

 Plymouth (Bignell). 



Continental distribution: Sweden, Germany, Hol- 

 land, France, Italy, Austria, Greece. 



3. CIMBEX LUTEA. 



Vol. II, PL XII, fig. 6, Larva after Vollenhoven, 5, 



Cocoon. 



Tenthredo lutea,, Lin., S. N., i, 655, 2; F. Su., 388; De Geer, 

 Mem., ii, pt. 2, 943 ; Don., Brit. Ins., 

 vii, pi. ccxxiv. 



femorata, Lin., S. N"., i, 555, 1 ; F. Su., 388. 

 Cimbex lutea, Pz., F. G., Heft 105, pi. xiv. 

 Crabro lunulatus, Fourc., Ent. Par., ii, 362. 



annulatus, Fourc., 1. c. 



Cimbex femorata, Voll., Tijd. Ent. (2), v, 64, pi. iii ; Ent., No. 

 151, 3, 1876. 



Griffinii, Leach, Z. M., iii, 107 ; Ste., 111., vii, 7, 5 ; Lep., 



Mon., 30, 80. 



Schaefferi, Lep., Mon., 26, 74; F. Fr., 3, pi. i, f. 1. 



variabilis, King, Berl. Mag., i, 72 ; Htg., Blattw., 63 ; 



Ratz., Forst., Ins., iii, 63, f. 10, ? . 



luteola, Lep., Mon., 28, 78. 



saliceti, Br. and Zad., Schr. Ges. Konig., iii, 251, pi. ii, 



f. 3. 



brevispina, Thorns., Hym. Sc., i, 21. 3. 



Luteous ; head and thorax darker coloured than the abdomen and 

 legs, covered with a close, silky, white or yellowish pubescence. Wings 

 pellucid, sometimes with a yellowish tint. 



The is covered with a longer pubescence than the ?, and is 

 fuscous or blackish in colour. 



Length 715 lines. 



Ab. a. Dull luteous ; the mesonotum, sternum, head, 

 and legs, brownish-testaceous ; the edges of the abdo- 

 minal segments marked with black. $ darker coloured 

 all over, and the base of abdomen broadly fuscous- 

 black. The wings in both sexes have a yellowish 

 tinge. 



b. The breast, the greater part of mesonotum, base 

 of abdomen, and femora above, black. Abdomen pale 

 luteous, the segments at base black. ? 



c. Thorax fuscous, the ground colour, however, being 

 dull testaceous; basal half of abdomen black, apex 



