6. ABIA.- — 7. AMASIS. 15 



Tenthredo nitens, Be Geer, Hist. Ins. ii. pt. ii. p. 1016, pi. xxxviii. 



figs. 32-34 (1771). 

 Tenthredo flavipes, JRetz. Gen. Sp. Ins. p. 71, n. 297 (1783). 



Hah. Europe. 



a-g. S 2 • Britain. J. F. Stephens. 



h, i. J $ • Britain. 



k. 2 ■ Blois. Lady Seymour. 



I, m. 2 • Germany. Herr J. F. Ruthe. 



n. <$ . (Type of A. nigricornis.) W. E. Leach. 



o-q. tf. Europe*. 



7. Abia imperialis. 

 (Plate I. fig. 10.) 



Exp. al. 10 lin., long. corp. 5 lin. 



Yiolet-blue. Antennas black ; tarsi piceons. Eore wings clear 

 yellowish hyaline, with no dark markings ; nervnres yellow ; hind 

 wings clear hyaline. Abdomen with a velvety black patch on the 

 back of segments 5-8. 



Hob. North China. 

 a. $ . (Type of species.) North China. K. Fortune. 



8. Abia kennicotti. 



Abia kennicotti, Norton, Trans. Amer. Fnt. Soc. i. p. 46 (1867). 

 Hah. United States. 



9. Abia (?) cerasi. 



Abia cerasi, Fitch, Third Report N. Y. State Agric. Soc. p. 67 (1859) ; 

 Nort. Trans. Amer. JSnt. Soc. i. p. 47 (1867). 



Hah. New York. 



7. AMASIS. 



Amasis, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 114 (1817). 



1. Amasis obscura. 



Tenthredo obscura, Fabr. Syst. Fnt. p. 319, n. 9 (1775) ; Panz. Faun. 



Germ. Heft 84, pi. xiii. (1801) ; ? Gmel. Syst. Nat. I pt. 5, p. 2666, 



n. 120 (1788 ?). 

 Cimbex obscura et italica, St.-Farg. Mon. Tenthr. p. 39 (1823). 



* Vollenhoven represents the larva of this species as feeding on snowberry ; 

 but Olivier states that it feeds on honeysuckle ; and Reaumur's figure of the 

 perfect insect agrees much better with this species than with Zar&a fasciata, to 

 which T. lonicera, Liun., is generally referred. 



