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bee vvliich was kept by the natives was, he believed, the 

 A[)is dorsata. In the North-west Provinces it was necessary 

 to leave the. key in every lock, or the cavity was pretty sure 

 to be occupied by a Pelopaeus : if a sheet of paper was left 

 on a mantel -shelf, it would be fixed thereto by an inserted 

 mud-cell ; or a like cell might often be found interposed be- 

 tween a pillow and the bed ; even a little hollow in the floor, 

 in spile of the inevitable destruction of the nest, would be 

 filled ; and in one case he had known a nest to be placed on 

 the edge of a door, and it was seven .times crushed by the 

 shutting of the door, and seven times renewed before the 

 little bee could be induced to forsake the spot she had 

 chosen. Some of the nests exhibited were placed in very 

 singular positions; one, of a leaf-cutting bee, was in the 

 handle or ear of a terra cotta vase, access being obtained 

 through a small hole in the narrow lower end of the handle ; 

 another, belonging to a Pelopaeus, and consisting of a single 

 n)ud-cell, was attached to a man's signet or finger ring, the 

 stone of which had fallen out, and was fastened to the metal 

 by means of a coil or knot of mud passed through the hole 

 where the stone had been ; a third nest of a bee consisted of 

 a spherical mass of cells which was found in the centre 

 (filling up the whole hollow) of the nest of a mouse, which 

 was suspended in grass. 



Prof Westwood mentioned that at Oxford he had found a 

 mouse's nest in the centre of one of his bee-hives, surrounded 

 by a number of headless bees. 



February 1, 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited a specimen of Pachetra 

 leucophaea, captured by Mr. N. E. Brown, on a gas-lamp at 

 the Redhill Railway Station, on the 14th May, 1868. 



Prof. Westwood gave an account of the new vine-pest, 

 Rhizaphis, to which his attention was first called in 1863 ; its 

 mode of attacking the vine was two-fold, or at all events spe- 

 cimens between which he could not find any difference, and 

 which to all appearance belonged to the same species, caused 

 damage to the vines in two very different ways. Some of 

 them sucked the upper side of the leaf, and caused the 

 appearance, on the lower side, of a gall, which was unique in 

 its character; the upper coat of the leaf split into tooth-like 



