FIRST WINTER MEETING. XXXV. 



MR. C. W. HEWGILL expressed the opinion that the time 

 and place of meeting were inconvenient, more especially for 

 those members of the Club who came from the Bournemouth 

 direction. He suggested that, instead of meeting at 12-30 and 

 having a luncheon interval, it would be more advantageous to 

 meet at 1-30, after an early luncheon, and that the meeting 

 should occupy one sitting only. The PRESIDENT stated that 

 the Winter Meetings had always been held at Dorchester and 

 that the question of the time of commencement had frequently 

 been discussed, but that no alteration had been made. The 

 REV. HERBERT PENTIN thought that the advantage of the 

 present arrangement as to place was that Dorchester is fairlv 

 central, some people coming from one direction and some from 

 another. The suggestion had also been made that the second 

 winter meeting should be held in January instead of in 

 February. After further discussion it was decided that, for 

 the present, at any rate, no alteration should be made. 



CAPT. ACLAND stated that some little dissatisfaction had 

 been expressed in consequence of the reduced size of the 

 Annual Volume of the Society's Proceedings. He alluded to 

 the great increase in the cost of printing and paper as well as 

 of binding, and said that the size of the volume must depend 

 upon the amount of subscriptions received. 



EXHIBITS. 

 By the PRESIDENT : 



(1). A reel of cotton, containing nest of the keyhole wasp 

 (Odynerus), and some specimens of the insect. Mr. Richardson 

 read the following note : 



This small wasp makes its nest of a series of mud cells in any small 

 hollow or tube, such as a keyhole. It often uses the groove in the sash of a 

 window where the sash line lies, or any other similar place, such as the 

 central tube in the reel exhibited. Its method is to make first a single cell, 

 in which it lays an egg, and in which it also places a caterpillar, which it 

 has .stung in such a way as to paraly/e it so that it can just move its tail, 

 much as many caterpillars do when on the point of turning to chrysalises. 

 The caterpillar remains in this state for a long time, (I have kept them for 



