122 Mr.G. Newport on a new genus of Parasitic Insects. 
XIV.—On the Identification of the Parasitic Genus of Insects, 
Anthophorabia. By Georcr Newrort, Esq., F.R.S. & LS. 
To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 
GENTLEMEN, London, July 1849. 
Mr. Westwoon’s letter, inserted in your July number, in reply 
to my remarks on the identification of Anthophorabia, obliges me 
to trouble you with some further remarks on this subject. 
I mentioned in my letter to you, that immediately after the 
reading of my paper to the Linnean Society, on the 20th of 
March, “the good faith of my statements (was) abruptly 
questioned in some remarks addressed to the Society by Mr. 
John Obadiah Westwood, who made it appear that my know- 
ledge of the insect Anthophorabia must have been derived from 
vivd voce statements made by himself at a meeting of the Ento- 
mological Society in July 1847” (Annals, vol. in. p. 514). Mr. 
Westwood now, after professing that he “ has neither leisure nor 
inclination to answer in detail,’—which very probably he has 
not,—says, “I agai deny having expressed a single word of 
doubt as to Mr. Newport having found the insects in question in 
1832, or that Z asserted that his knowledge of them was derived 
from my cominunications.” Now I beg to say, that whatever 
may have been the precise words employed, Mr. Westwood most 
certainly did express doubt, and did impress, and did endeavour 
to impress on the minds of those who were present, that my first 
knowledge of the insect I had described must have been derived 
from his observations at the Entomological Society in July 1847 ; 
and he asserted, in the most positive manner, that I was in the 
Chair at the time. The printed Proceedings of the Society prove 
that Mr. Spence was in the chair! I may now further state, 
that he succeeded, for the time, in injurmg me in the good 
opinion of many who were present at the Linnzean Society, as I 
have since been assured by several gentlemen ; as his imputations 
seemed to be supported by the fact—which he still dwells upon, 
with what object others may decide (Annals, p.39)—of my having 
been present at the meeting of the Entomological Society when 
he referred to an insect by the name of Melittobia Audouinii ; 
although, to this very hour, I have never seen that insect or his 
drawings of it. Further, I may mention that it was evidently 
his object to question the accuracy of my statements in the paper 
I read to the Linnzean Society which drew forth the spontaneous 
evidence in my favour from Mr. Nash, as I have since been as- 
sured by that gentleman, to whom I had shown drawings of my 
insect in 1832. These identical drawings, which I made from 
living specimens, and which I regard as some of the most care- 
