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April 6, 1874. 

 Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., Presideut, iu the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors: — 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' no. 150; presented by the 

 Society. 'Proceedings of the Linneau Society of London, Session 

 1873 — 74 ;' by the Society. 'L'Abeille,' tome ix., livr. 7 and 8 ; by the 

 Editor. ' Newman's Entomologist ' and ' The Zoologist,' for April ; by the 

 Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' for April ; by the Editors. 

 'Exotic Butterflies,' part 90 : by the Author, W. G Hewitson, Esq. 



Election of Members. 

 Messrs. W. Garneys, M.R.C.S., of Repton ; Philip B. Mason, M.R.C.S., 

 of Burton-on-Trent; and Nathaniel C. Tuely,,Esq., of Wimbledon Park, 

 were severally balloted for and elected Ordinary Members. 



Exhibitions, dc. 

 Mr. Frederick Smith communicated to the Society the fact of his having 

 captured seven specimens of Andrena tibialis, on Hampstead Heath, on 

 the previous Friday, April 3rd, two being females and five males. One of 

 the females had the exuviae of two males of Stylops remaining in the abdo- 

 men, the other female had had one male of Stylops, and also a female which 

 of course remained in the abdomen of the bee. Of the male Andrente, one 

 contained two females, a second having one of the same sex remaining in 

 its abdomen. Mr: Smith mentioned this circumstance to give collectors of 

 Coleoptera an opportunity of capturing the rare Stylops; and recom- 

 mended searching for Stylopized bees between the hours of nine and 

 twelve in the morning, as, according to his experience, the Stylops always 

 emerged from the body of the bee on the day on which the latter first 

 quitted its nest, should the day be bright and sunny ; and he also mentioned 

 the fact of his never having captured a bee which had a male Stylops 

 remaining in its abdomen, at a later hour of the day than twelve o'clock. 

 He had himself bred Stylops five or six times, and had never done so later 

 than the month of April; always having captured the attacked, or infested, 

 bees early in the day. On one occasion he bred a Stylops on the same day 

 on which he had captured the infested Andrena, conveying the bee home, 

 shut up in a pill-box ; then, on arriving home, he had placed the bee iu 

 the sun, enclosed in a wooden box having a glass lid ; when, in the 

 course of half-an-hour, the Stylops quitted the body of the bee. On other 

 occasions he had kept Stylopized bees in pill-boxes the whole of the day of 



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