Mr. G. Newport on a new genus of Parasitic Insects. 513 ^Triton variegatum. Triton corrugatum : dead. * Chenopus pes-pelicani : common . ^Purpura lapillus : St. Simon's Island, full-sized white ; Vigo small, dark colour. "^Nassa reticulata : abundant : darkrcoloured undulated variety at St. Simon's Island : mud. * macula : sand. *Nassa varicosa : mud. : smooth, purple inside: banded: animal very active : extremely abundant in mud. *Buccinum minimum : nullipore. ^Ringicula auriculata : very abundant in mud. * Erato IcEvis : two live specimens : sand. *Cypraa europaa. *Sepia. * Octopus. Echinus: four species, one of which is new to me. Starfishes, four, identical with British. Holuthurice, 1 i ^ • j • t» ^ t^ Cucumarice, ] '^"'^ ^' obtained in Bantry Bay. Zoophytes. Alcyonium digitatum. Pennatula (Mediterranean species). ActinicE : several. Various animals of genera unknown to rae. R. MacAndrew. LI. — On the Identification of a new Genus of Parasitic Insects, Anthophorabia. By George Newport, Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. Gentlemen, London, May 21, 1849. The care which is always taken in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History ' to preserve to zoological nomenclature in this country a character for precision and honesty, induces me to re-quest your insertion in that Journal of the following description of a Chalcididous insect which I discovered in the years 1831 and 1832 in the nests of Anthophora retusa at Richborough in Kent, and communicated on the 20th of March last to a meeting of the Linnsean Society ; and also of some statement of facts connected with this communication. Family CHALCiDiDiE. Genus Anthophorabia y Newp. (Female.) Head broader than the thorax ; antennse six-jointed, pilose, with the second, third, fourth and fifth joints nearly equal, the sixth long, oval ; thorax a'nd abdomen of equal length ; wings with a median bifid nervure ; tarsi five-jointed. Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. iil 33
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