MR. NEWPORT’S OBSERVATIONS ON THE GENUS ANTHOPHORABIA. 81: 
Mas. Caput magnum. Oculi stemmatosi. Antenne 10-articulatæ ; articulo Imo globoso, minutissimo ; 
2do arcuato, magnoperè dilatato, dimidio anteriore subtüs excavato; 3tio magno ; 4to adhüc majore, 
globoso v. subangulato ; 5to, 6to, 7 moque minimis, cyathiformibus ; 8vo, 9no, 10moque auctis, clavam 
solidam ovalem efformantibus. Ale abbreviate. 
As the specimens which I now possess afford some specific characters which I do not 
remember to have observed in the specimens formerly obtained at Richborough, and as I 
do not possess any of those to compare with them, I propose to name the species I have 
obtained at Gravesend, provisionally, in the event of its proving to be distinct, Anthopho- 
rabia fasciata, and to describe it as follows :— 
ANTHOPHORABIA FASCIATA ; Mas. Fulva, fasciis 5 transversis abdominalibus saturatiori- 
bus, antennarum articulis anterioribus oculis prothoracis margine posteriore macu- 
läque subalari utrinque in mesothorace nigrescentibus, pedibus subarcuatis robustis 
ambulatoriis, trochantere femorumque paris secundi parte terminali subtüs spinulis 
minutis densè barbatis, tibiis tarsisque omnibus fortiter spinosis.—Long. lin. 1.— 
Fœm. Nigro-ænea nitida, lineis 2 longitudinalibus in mesothorace scutelloque albi- 
dis, abdomine ovali elongato acuto fasciis transversis saturatioribus pilis albidis mar- 
ginatis, oculis rufescentibus, pedibus flavescentibus, femoribus saturatioribus, tibiis 
. rectis elongatis pilosis, tarsis pilosis fortiter spinosis. 
Hab. in nidis Anthophore retuse, juxta Gravesend in com. Cantio. 
These insects were found while myself and a friend were searching for the larve of 
Monodontomerus nitidus, on the 14th of September, 1851, at Gravesend; and although 
met with in only one bee's nest, L was fortunate in securing nearly one hundred and fifty 
specimens. Most of these were still in the nymph or pupa state, but some of them had 
already become imagos. On examining them on the following day, I found that several 
more had recently changed ; and while I was engaged in watching them, I had the satis- 
faction to observe two males throw off their coverings. Having placed the whole in a 
shallow vessel covered with glass, I was enabled to watch their proceedings. These males 
began immediately to traverse round the interior of the vessel leisurely, but very assi- 
duously, touching and turning many of the yet undeveloped female nymphs with their 
antennæ. Occasionally they raised their rudimentary wings, but made no attempt to fly, 
or even to leap, as the females frequently do, although they were in no way confined for 
room. In this manner they continued to roam about, without making the slightest effort 
to escape, their sole attention being evidently directed to the unhatched females. 
The males appear to be very few in number in proportion to the females, as out of the 
hundred and fifty specimens obtained I could only find eleven. They are also very short- 
lived, as the whole of those which came forth in the afternoon of the day subsequent to 
that on which they were found, were dead on the following morning. The females were 
much longer-lived, and not only crept about freely, but occasionally leaped to a consider- 
paren to observe any direct communication between the sexes, notwithstanding 
the apparent attentions of the males in the way I have mentioned. Yet there afterwards 
appeared reason to believe that some of the females had been fecundated, probably, as for- 
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