Mr. G. Ncvport on a neiv genus of Parasitic Insects. 513 



"^Triton variegatum. Triton corrugntum -. dead. 



^Ckenopus pes-pelicani : common. 



*Purpu7-a lapillus : St. Simon's Island, full-sized white ; Vigo small, 



dark colour. 

 *Nassa reticulata : abundant : dark-coloured undulated variety at 



St. Simon's Island : mud. 



* macula : sand. *Nassa varicosa : mud. 



: smooth, purple inside: banded: animal very active: extremely 



abundant in mud. 

 * Buccinum minimum : nullipore. 

 *Ringicula auriculata : very abundant in mud. 



* Erato Icevis : two live specimens : sand. 

 *Cypr(ea europcea. 



*Sepia. 



* Octopus. 



Echinus : four species, one of which is new to me. 

 Starfishes, four, identical with British. 

 Holuthurice, 1 i ^ • j • t^ r. 



CucumaricB, / '^^^ ^' obtamed in Bantry Bay. 



Zoophytes. 

 Alcyoniian digitatum. 

 Pennatula (Mediterranean species). 

 Actinia : several. 



Various animals of genera unknown to me. 



R. MacAndrew. 



LI. — On the Identification of a neio Genus of Parasitic Insects, 

 Anthophorabia. By George Newport^ Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 

 Gentlemen, London, May 21, 1S49. 



The care which is always taken in the ' Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History ' to preserve to zoological nomenclature in this 

 country a character for precision and honesty, induces me to re- 

 quest your insertion in that Journal of the following description 

 of a Chalcididous insect which I discovered in the years 1831 and 

 1832 in the nests of Anthophora retusa at Richborough in Kent, 

 and comnninicated on the 20th of March last to a meeting of the 

 Linntean Society ; and also of some statement of facts connected 

 with this communication. 



Family Ciialcidid.e. 

 Genus Anthophorabia, Newp. 

 {Female.) Head broader than the thorax; antennse six-jointed, 

 pilose, with the second, third, fourth and fifth joints nearly 

 equal, the sixth long, oval ; thorax and abdomen of equal 

 length ; mngs with a median bifid nervure ; tarsi five-joiuted. 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol.m. 33 



