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that, with the insect before us, we are now enabled to demonstrate that this little creature 

 really does possess the eyes stated*. It is but just, however, to mention, that with regard 

 to some other details of less importance, my former description admits of revision ; but 

 any occasion for this, although asserted, could only have been guessed at as vaguely as 

 with regard to the eyes, by those who have never seen my insect. Thus I now find that 

 the club of the antenna, in both sexes, is formed of a plurality of closely-united immovable 

 segments, instead of being but a single joint; a circumstance which affects the declared 

 number of parts of which the antenna is composed ; and the possibility of which I have 

 elsewhere admitted f. Further, the number of joints in the tarsi may either be regarded 

 as five, as I have described them, if, as anatomists, we consider as a distinct joint the pad- 

 like terminal portion of the foot ; or as four only, if this part be discarded, and the number 

 be computed in the way usual with entomologists. 



With regard to the supposed identity J of Anthophorabia with the insect mentioned in my 

 paper of the 20th March, 1849, p. 64, on the Chalcididce, and which had been named Me- 

 littobia, but which, up to that period, had not been described §, there cannot be much diffi- 

 culty in arriving at a conclusion in the negative ; if the description in the accounts given by 

 the entomologist who has since repeatedly characterized the latter insect be correct. Thus 

 the male of Anthophorabia has stemmatous eyes, while that of Melittobia is described as 

 having " eyes and stemmata wanting ||," or as " omnino caecus^f," or " caecus**." And 

 again, the male of Anthophorabia has the middle joint of the antennas " large and globose" 

 or subangulated, while that of Melittobia was first stated to have " 2nd and 3rd joints 

 small, nearly equal, 4th, 5th and 6th very small and subannulosettj" aud afterwards these 

 characters were revised by the omission of all reference to the second and third joints, the 

 statement being simply " articulis 4to, 5to et 6to minimis J J." So that, presuming these 

 several descriptions to express the fact, the question must be looked upon as decided. 



Thus much then with regard to the identity of the genus Anthophorabia. In respect 

 of the species there appears to be even less difficulty, Anthophorabia retusa being described 

 both generically and specifically in my former paper, while no specific characters whatever 

 have even as yet been published of Melittobia Audouinii. 



I now propose to revise the generic description of Anthophorabia in the following 

 manner : — 



Earn. CHALCIDIDjE. 



Gen. Anthophorabia, Newp. 



Fern. Caput latitudine thoracis. Antennm 9-articulatse, pilosae ; articulo 3tio ad 6tum subsequalibus ; 

 reliquis clavam solidam ovalera efformantibus. Thorax abdomenque aequales. Tarsi (4-?) 5-articulati 

 in utroque sexu ; articulo 5to minimo pulvillo simili, fere obsoleto. 



* Page 63. f Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. August 1849, p. 123. J Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 37. 



§ See Mr. Westwood's "Introduction," &c., vol. i. p. 18. "The species has not yet been described." Also, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. v. part 3, 1848 (Proceedings), p. xviii. || Gardeners' Chronicle, May 12, 1849, p. 295. 



^f Transactions of the Entomological Society, vol. v. part 7, p. Ixv. 1849. 

 ** Proceedings of the Linnean Society for May 1, 1849, vol. ii. p. 37. 

 ff Gardeners' Chronicle, ubi suprh. %% Trans. Ent. Soc. and Proc. Linn. Soc. ubi suprh. 





