6 Proceedings 
Mr. F, Hughes exhibited objects under the microscope 
and Mr. C. E. Salmon some dried specimens of plants. 
A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING was held at the Museum, 
Public Hall, Reigate, on March 6th, 1902, “to discuss a 
suggestion to remove the existing Museum to the Old 
Town Hall, Reigate. 
As a result of the discussion it was decided to move the 
Museum to the Old Town Hall, and Trustees were ap- 
pointed. 
MEETING held at Reigate, Mar. 21st, 1902. 
Present—16. 
Mr. G. E. Frisby gave an address upon “‘Some habits of 
the Hymenoptera” and exhibited many interesting species 
to illustrate the Order. 
Some HABITS OF THE HYMENOPTERA. 
Of all the Hymenoptera, the Hive Bee and a few of the 
Ants, have, I suppose, received more attention, and have 
had much more written about their habits than have all 
the remaining species put together. I propose, therefore, 
to give them but little attention on this occasion, and to 
deal almost entirely with the habits of the less known, but 
not less interesting, species. 
A brief mention of a few of the Ants will be all that 
there will be time for. 
You will probably all have read accounts of the con- 
tinental slave-making Ant, Polyergus rufescens. Although 
it does not occur in England, we have one British Ant 
which keeps other species in a state of slavery. This is 
Formica sanguinea, very similar in appearance to our large 
Wood Ant, but living chiefly in banks. It raids the nests 
of the closely allied Formica fusca and F. rufibarbis, which 
are but little inferior in size, to carry off the pupz of the’ 
workers. 
