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May 6th, 1903. 



Professor E. B. Podlton, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



The President announced that he had received a generous 

 welcome from the Entomological Society of France on the 

 occasion of his recent visit to Paris. He remarked that the 

 Entomological Society of London, as now constituted, came into 

 existence two years after that of France, and exhibited one of 

 the original invitations to join the Society issued in 1834, and 

 signed " G. R Gray, Secretary pro tern." The Meeting 

 signified approval that this document should be reproduced 

 in lithograph, and placed in the Library. 



The President also announced that a Suggestion Book 

 for subjects of discussion and .exhibition would be placed 

 in the Library for the use of Fellows. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. WiLLOUGHBY GARDNER exhibited nest cells of Osmia 

 xanthomelana from Conway, North Wales. He said the 

 species, one of our rarer mason bees, places its beautifully 

 constructed pitcher-shaped cells at the roots of grass, usually 

 four or five together. The bee itself is always scarce in 

 Britain, and there is no previous i-ecord of the nest having 

 been found since Mr. Waterhouse discovered and described it 

 from Liverpool about sixty-five years ago. 



Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited Arsoa longimana, Fairm., and A. 

 aranea, from Madagascar, the only other specimens of these 

 species he knew of being in the British Museum collection. 

 He also exhibited Meyalojnis melvpona, Bates, and M. pilipes 

 from the Amazon, which bore a remarkable resemblance to a 

 bee, so much so that Bates always mistook it for one when 

 settled on a twig. 



The President remarked that two species of Cetoniidse 

 observed by him in Majorca, in 1900, were very like humble- 

 bees in their mode of settling or rising from flowers. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited a water-beetle new to Britain, 

 viz. Hydrojjorus bilineatus, Sturm., discovered by Mr. Edward 

 Waterhouse among some specimens of Hydroporus given by 



