Mr. G. Newport on a new genus of Parasitic Insects. 513 
*Triton variegatum. Triton corrugatum: dead. 
_*Chenopus pes-pelicani : common. 
* Purpura lapillus : St. Simon’s Island, full-sized white ; Vigo small, 
dark colour. 
* Nassa reticulata: abundant: darkecoloured 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 auriculaia : very abundant in mud. 
* Hrato levis : two live specimens: sand. 
*Cyprea europea, 
* Sepia. 
* Octopus. 
fichinus : four species, one of which is new to me. 
Starfishes, four, identical with British. 
Holuthurie, 
Cucumarie, 
a 
\ same as obtained in Bantry Bay. 
ZoOPHYTES. 
Alcyonium digitatum. 
Pennatula (Mediterranean species). 
- Acetinie : several. 
Various animals of genera unknown to me. 
R. MacAnnprew. 
L1.—On the Identification of a new.Genus of Parasitic Insects, 
Anthophorabia. By Gzorcz Nuwrort, Esq., F.R.S. & LS, 
To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 
GENTLEMEN, London, May 21, 1849, 
Te 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 Chaleididous insect which I discovered in the years 1831 and 
1832 in the nests of Anthophora retusa at Richborough in Kent, 
and communicated on the 20th of March last to a meeting of the 
Linnzan Society ; and also of some statement of facts connected 
with this communication. 
Family CuacipipZ. 
| Genus Anthophorabia, Newp. 
(Female.) Head broader than the thorax; antenne six-jointed, 
pilose, with the second, third, fourth and fifth joints nearly 
equal, the sixth long, oval; thorax and abdomen of equal 
length ; wings with a median bifid nervure ; tarsi five-jointed. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. in. 33 
