Mr. G. Ne^vport on a new genus of ParasHic Insects, 513 



"^Triton variegatum. Triton corrugatum : dead. 



^Chenopus pes-pelicani : common. 



'^Purpura lapillus : St. Simon's Island, full-sized white ; Vigo srtfall, 



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 : nuUipore. 

 *Ringicula auriculata : very abundant in mud. 



* Erato IcEvis : two live specimens : sand. 

 '^Cypraa europcca. 



* Sepia. 



* Octopus. 



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

 Starfishes, four, identical with British. 

 HoluthuricB, 1 i . i • ^ x, 



CucumaricB, ] '^™^ ^' obtained in Bantry Bay. 



Zoophytes. 

 Alcyonium digitatum. 

 Pennatula (Mediterranean species). 

 Actinio£ : several. 



Various animals of genera unknown to me. 



R. MacAndrew. 



\j\..—^On the Identification of a new 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, 1849. 



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 communicated on the 20th of March last to a meeting of the 

 Linnsean Society ; and also of some statement of facts connected 

 with this communication. 



Family Chalcidid^. 

 Genus Anthophorabia, Newp. 

 (Female.) Head broader than the thorax ; antennae 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. iii. 33 



