514 Mr. G. Newport on a new genus of Parasitic Insects, 
(Male.j Antenne four-jointed, basal joint arched, greatly dilated 
and excavated on the under surface, second joint cylindrical, 
third large, globose, fourth elongated, oval* ; eyes stemmatous ; 
wings abbreviated. Length 1 ‘line. 
Species. retusa, Newp. female bronze green, legs yellowish 
Male yellow or deep ferruginous, stemmata blackish ; /arva sub- 
cylindrical, formed of fourteen segments, and slightly attenu- 
ated at each extremity. 
Found in the cells of Anthophora at Richborough, Kent. 
Although I had found this insect in all its stages of develop- 
ment, had made carefully finished drawings of it, and of its de- 
tails m 1831 and 1832, and had showed these at that time to 
many friends, of which T have ample proof, I delayed to publish 
any account of it until recently, because I had intended to have 
done this in connexion with some facts of anatomy not yet put 
forth. Being engaged, however, in investigating the relation 
which subsists between the special anatomy of animals and the 
peculiarities in their ceconomy and instincts, the male of this in- 
sect appeared to me to offer a good exemplification of my views 
in the peculiarities of its organs of vision, as compared with what 
I had seen and known of its habits. But as I could not find any 
description of the msect in any entomological work to which 
had access, it became necessary for me to characterize and name 
it, that others might be able to identify it, before any references 
to it could be of value to science. I did this in the first part of 
a paper read to the Linnean Society on the 20th of March last, 
and the description above given was printed in the report of the 
meeting of that Society inserted in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle ” 
for the 24th of March, No. 12, page 183. The description and 
naming of the insect were thus but incidental to the chief object 
of my paper; and my claim to a scientific notification of the 
genus and species can only take date from that period, although 
[have known of the existence of this insect for nearly eighteen 
years. The particulars given in my paper of the place and time 
of its discovery were but as matters of history in connexion with 
its habits. Imagine then my surprise at the close of the reading 
of that portion of the paper at hearmg the good faith of my state- 
ments abruptly questioned in some remarks addressed to the 
Society by Mr. John Obadiah Westwood, who made it appear that 
my knowledge of the insect Anthophorabia must have been de- 
rived from vivd voce statements made by himself at a meeting of 
the Entomological Society m July 1847, when he referred. to an 
undescribed insect by the name of Melittobia Audouini, and 
* Itis probable that the large terminal joint of the antennz, both in the 
male and female, may be formed by the union of two or more joints in one 
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