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coelestina, Hyiysidse ; lostola divisa, Geometridx (1) ; Pseudar- 

 hessa decorata. It appears very evident from the specimens 

 ■collected over eighteen months in exactly the same place, 

 that the Syntomidec in being so numei'ous have acted as the 

 types, toward which the other species have converged. The 

 jjarticular interest of the exhibit consisted in the association 

 being one of moths, a butterfly being the exception, and not 

 one of butterflies with perhaps a single moth, which latter is 

 so frequently the case in South America. The butterfly most 

 closely resembled Agyrta vdcilia, one of the Syntomidee that is 

 perhaps the most abundant of all the groups. 



Papers. 



Mr. 0. 0. Waterhouse read " Notes on the nests of Bees of 

 the Genus Trigona." 



Mr. G. A. EoTHNEY communicated a paper on " The 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera of Bariackpore, Bengal ; " and another 

 paper entitled " Descriptions of eighteen new species of 

 Larridee and Apidx, from Barrackpore, by Peter Cameron." 



Colonel Charles Swinhoe communicated a paper '• On the 

 Aganiidx in the British Museum, with descriptions of some 

 new species." 



Wednesday, March 18th, 1903. 



Professor E. B. Poultox, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. H. W. Bell-Mari.ey, Durban, Natal, Mr. J. C. 

 DoLLMAN, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, W., Mr. W. W. 

 Rowlands, Lickey Grange, nearjBromsgrove, and Prof. T. H. 

 Taylor, M.A., The Yorkshire College, Leeds, were elected 

 Pellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited with drawings a dissected 

 gynandromorphous specimen of a bee (Osmia falviventris, 

 Panz.). He said in this species the 9 is normally larger, 



