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actions' of that Society, which 1 hope to be able to lay before British 

 entomologists in the pages of the ' Zoologist. The descriptions in 

 the original are accompanied by coloured plates of the different states 

 of the insects. These could not be published in the ' Zoologist,' but 

 I have retained the references to the figures in the text, and shall 

 be happy to furnish copies of the different parts of the Netherland 

 Entomological Society's ' Transactions,' containing the plates in ques- 

 tion, to any one who may wish to have ihem. Each part will contain 

 two or more plates, and the cost of each part will vary from 2s. 4d. to 

 3*. 8d., as 1 am at present informed ; at any rate I shall be happy to 

 let any entomologist have the plates at the price I may have to pay 



for them. 



John W. May. 

 19, Clifton Road East, 

 St. Joliu's Wood. 



Asia (Cimbex) ^nea, Kluff. 

 Imago : Linn. Syst. ii. 922, Tenthredo nitens ? Hartig, Blatt. 



and Holzwespen, No. 7, p. 73. Lepelelier, Mon. Tenlhr. 



No. 100, p. 37. King, Blaitwespen, p. 91. Leach. Zool. Misc. 



No. 1, Abia nigricornis. 

 Larva undescribed. 



Abia aenea, flavescenti-sericea, antennis nigris, femoribus aeneis, 

 genubus, tibiis tarsisque pallide flavis, alis fusco-variegatisj maris 

 abdomine notato macula quadrata nigra. 



On the 23rd of June, 1844, I found some larvae of a Cimbex which 

 were new to me. They were discovered on Symphoricarpus racemosus, 

 a neat shrub, to be met with in nearly every garden in Holland. The 

 larvae in question were taken in a garden at Zwammerdam. 



In common with all the known larvae of Cimbex they have twenty- 

 two legs, the fourth segment alone being apodal. The head is black 

 on the crown and gray on the under side ; the back purplish gray, and 

 divided in its whole length by two orange-coloured lines of equal 

 width ; the abdomen and legs are gray. The claws of the six thoracic 

 legs, which have a tubercle at the base (fig. 3), are brown. Between 

 the orange lines are twelve large dark ptnple spots, and between each 

 pair of these two smaller spots there are also some small spots on either 

 side. The elliptical spiracles (fig. 2 a) have a corneous margin, which 

 is prolonged downwards in two diverging brown stripes. Above each 

 of the breathing pores from the third to the ninth is to be seen, by 



