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posteriore maculaque subalari utrinque in mesothorace nigrescentibus, 

 pedibus subarcuatis robustis ambulatoriis, trocbantere femorumque paris 

 secundi parte terminali siibtus spinulis minutis dense barbatis, tibiis 

 tarsisque omnibus fortiter spinosis. — Long. lin. 1. 



Fern. Nigro-senea nitida, lineis 2 longitiidinalibus in mesothorace scutello- 

 que albidis, abdomine ovali elongate acuto fasciis transversis satura- 

 tioribus pilis albidis marginatis, oculis rufescentibus, pedibus flavescen- 

 tibus, femoribus saturatioribus, tibiis rectis elongatis pilosis, tarsis pi- 

 losis fortiter spinosis. 



Hah. in nidis AnthophorcB refuses apud Gravesend in Comitatu Cantiano. 



The author then gave some account of the habits of the males and 

 females, which he had seen emerge from the nymph state, and re- 

 marked that out of about one hundred and fifty specimens of perfect 

 insects and nymphs obtained from one bee's nest, he had only found 

 eleven males. Having placed about one hundred females in a small 

 glass tube closed, as he thought, securely with a cork, he was sur- 

 prised at the end of a fortnight to find that nearly the whole had 

 escaped, by insinuating themselves into slight fissures in the sides of 

 the cork, between this and the glass. From this circumstance he 

 is now disposed to think that the habit of the female is to penetrate 

 into the bee's nest, after this has been closed, and deposit her eggs 

 on the nearly full-grown larva within; as a few weeks after the 

 escape of these females he discovered three individuals in an open 

 cell of Anthophora which contained a nearly full-grown larva, and 

 which had remained nearly close to the glass tube from which the 

 Anthophorabia had escaped. Two of these individuals now appeared 

 to be in the act of oviposition. He noticed also on the same bee- 

 larva some larvae of the parasites in different stages of growth ; so 

 that he regards the species as an external feeder, like the larva of 

 Monodontomerus. 



Specimens of the male and female insects were exhibited at the 

 meeting. 



February 17. 



Robert Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Read a continuation of Mr. Joseph Woods's " Botanical Notes 

 made diuring a Tour in France." 



