304 Linnaan Society. 



At the time the author described this genus it was well known that 

 he possessed only delineations of the insect, which he had made in 

 the year 1831 ; at which time the insect occurred in great abundance, 

 and as he then expected to have been able to obtain it at pleasure, he 

 neglected to preserve specimens of it. He now showed in the in- 

 sect itself the stemraatous eyes which he originally stated it to pos- 

 sess, and consequently that the denial which had been given to this 

 fact had been uncalled for. He felt it but right, however, to mention 

 that there were points of minor importance in the description origi- 

 nally given of the genus which admitted of some revision. These 

 referred to the number of joints in the antennse, the club of which 

 is formed of a plurality of closely united rings, instead of being but 

 a single joint. The tarsi, too, of both sexes, may be regarded either 

 in the way usual with entomologists, as being formed only of four 

 joints, or, if anatomically considered, as he had originally described 

 them, as of five joints, the terminal joint being short, soft and pad- 

 like, and usually discarded by entomologists as a distinct joint, 

 which, nevertheless, it is. 



With respect to the asserted identity of Anthophorahia with another 

 parasite, Melittohia, described in the * Proceedings ' for May 1, 1849, 

 vol. ii. p. 37, the author showed that this could not be the case, if 

 the latter insect has been described correctly, as the account there 

 given of Melittohia differs greatly from the facts exhibited by Antho- 

 phorabia. The characters of this genus he now proposed to revise 

 as follows : — 



Fam. ChalcididjE. 



Gen. Anthophorabia, Neivp. 



Fern. Caput latitudine thoracis. Antennts 9articulatse, pilosae ; artinulo 

 3tio ad 6tum subaequalibus ; reliquis clavam solidam ovaleni efforman- 

 tibus. Thorax abdomenque asquales. Tarsi (4-?) 5-articuIati in utro- 

 que sexu; articulo 5to minimo, molii, pulvillo simili, fere obsoleto. 



Mas. Caput magnum. Oculi stemmatosi. AnienncB lO-articulatas; 

 articulo Imo globoso, minutissimo ; 2do arcuato, magnopere dilatato, 

 dimidio anteriore subtus excavate ; 3tio magno ; 4to adhuc inajore, 

 globoso v. subangulato; 5to 6to 7mjque minimis, cyathiformibus ; 

 8vo 9no lOmoque auctis, clavam solidam ovalem efFormantibus. AI(b 

 abbreviatae. 



As the specimens found at Gravesend present some specific cha- 

 racters which were not observed in the insects formerly obtained at 

 Ilichborough, the author proposed to name those which he now 

 possesses, provisionally, in the event of their proving to be a new 

 species : — 



A. FAsciATA. Mas. Fulva, fasciis 5 transversis abdominalibus satui'a- 

 tioribus, antennarum articulis anterioribus oculis prothoracis margine 

 posteriore maculaque subalari utrinque in mesothorace nigrescentibus, 

 pedibus subarcuatis robustis ambulatoriis, trocliantere femoruinque paris 

 secundi parte terminali subtus spinalis minutis dense bavbatis, tibils 

 tarsisque onmibus fovtiter spinosis. — Long. lin. 1. 



Fem. Nigro-aenea nitida, lineis 2 longitudinalibus in mesothorace scutello- 

 que albidis, abdomine ovali elongato acuto fasciis transversis satuva- 



