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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 stemmatous 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 antennae, the club of w^hich 

 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 Anthophorabia with another 

 parasite, MelittoUa, 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 Melittobia diflfers greatly from the facts exhibited by Antho- 

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

 as follows : — 



Fam. Chalcidid^, 



Gen. Anthophorabia, Newp. 



Fern, Caput latitudine thoracis. AntenncB 9-articulatae, pilosse ; articulo 

 3tio ad 6tum subasqualibus ; reliquis clavam solidam ovalem efforman- 

 tibus. Thorax abdomenque sequales. Tarsi (4- ?) 5-articulati in utro- 

 que sexu; avticulo 5to minimo, molli, pulvillo simili, fere obsolete. 



Mas. Caput magnum. Ocult stemmatosi. Antennce 10-articulatae; 

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

 dimldio anteriore subtus excavato ; 3tio magno ; 4to adhuc majore, 

 globoso V. subangulato ; 5to 6to 7moque minimis, cyathiformibus ; 

 8vo 9no lOmoque auctis, clavam solidam ovalem efformantibus. Ala 

 abbreviatae. 



As the specimens found at Gravesend present some specific cha- 

 racters which were not observed in the insects formerly obtained at 

 Richborough, 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 satura- 

 tioribus, antennarum articulis anterioiibus oculis prothoracis margiiie 



