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red clover was repeatedly visited and fertilised by the common hive-bee ; 

 seeds were produced, but apparently in much smaller proportion than 

 elsewhere. The red clover did not, however, maintain itself in a wild state, 

 and the Acclimatisation Society proposed to introduce the humble-bee. 



November 7, 1883. 

 J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c, President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thauks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Election of a Member. 



Robert Jervoise Attye, Esq. (Iugow Grange, Slratford-on-Avon), was 

 balloted for and elected a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, <&c. 



Mr. F. Enock exhibited a living male and female Atypus piceus, Sulz., 

 from Woking. He remarked that although this spider was generally 

 considered rare he had no difficulty in always obtaining as many specimens 

 as he required. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens of the following twenty-four 

 species of aculeate Hymenoptera, captured at Margate on August 1st, 1883, 

 viz. : — Lasius niger, Linn., Priocnemis obtusiventris, Schiodte, Tachytes 

 pectinipes, Linn., Cemonus lethifer, Shuck., Oxybelus uniglumis, Linn., 

 Odynerus parietum, Linn., Prosopis communis, Nyl., P. signata, Panz., 

 Sphecodes similis, Wesm., Halictus leucozonius, Schrank, H. cylindricus, 

 Fabr., H. subfasciatus, Nyl., H. villosulus, Kirby, H. nitidiusculus, Kirby, 

 H. minutissimus, Kirby, H. morio, Fabr., H. leucopus, Kirby, Andrena 

 bicolor, Fabr., Nomada jacobe&w, Panz., Megachile centuncularis, Linn., 

 M. Willughbiella, Kirby, Anthidium manicatum, Linn., Osmia rufa, Linn., 

 and Bombus sylvarum, Linn. Also the following Ichneumouidae, taken at 

 Sevenoaks and Headley Lane in June, 1883 : — Ichneumon vaginatorius, 

 Linn., I. confusorius, Gr., /. latrator, Fabr., and var. means, Gr., i\ nigri- 

 tarius, Gr., I. fabricator, Fabr., /. lanius, Gr., I. sanguinator, Rossi, Exo- 

 phanes exulans, Gr., Diccelotus pumilus, Gr., D. parvulus, Gr., Centeterus 

 picticollis, "Wesm., Phceogenes scutellaris, Wesm., P. fulvitarsis, Wesm., 

 P. ischiomelinus, Gr., Phygadeuon troglodytes, Gr., P. abdominator, Gr., 

 P.jucundus,Gr., P.sp.?, Cryptus stomaticus, Gr., Hemiteles bicolorinus,Gr., 

 Pezomachus Neesii, Forst., Ophion luteus, Linn., 0. minutus, Kriechb., 

 Agrypon flaveolatum, Gr., Paniscus virgahis,Fourc, Campoplex mixtus, Gr., 

 C. erythrog aster, Forst., Limneria tristis, Gr., Atractodes vestalis, Hal., 



