2S0 [May, 187G. 



Dunning Kay, and W. C Copperthwaite, were elected Ordinary Members ; and Mr. 

 B. A. Bower, Jun., was elected a Subscriber. 



Mr. F. Bond exbibited an example of Xylina Jamhda taken near Eritli in 

 September last by Mr. W. Marshall, being the fifth known instance of the occurrence 

 of the species in Britain. Also Ebulea stacht/dalis, taken by himself at Kingsbury, 

 Middlesex, in June, 1802. 



Mr. Champion cxjiibited specimens of ^gialia rufa taken by Mr. Sidebotham 

 near Southport : and he brought examples of PsammoMus sideicollis for distribution. 



The President made some - observations respecting the habits of the common 

 gnat in continuation of his remarks at the meeting for November 4th, 1872 {vide 

 Ent. M. M., ix, p. 167). Large numbers of females had again appeared in his house 

 at Oxford during the first warm days of spring, and he suspected that they had 

 liibernated in the house. They had commenced their usual practices, and some of 

 those killed were full of blood. He also remarked that Dr. Leconte's valuable 

 collection of Coleoptera had been presented to the University at Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



Sir S. S. Saunders exhibited living examples of Stylops Kirhii found a day or 

 two previously at Hampstead, three having been taken on the vving, in the forenoon. 

 He had found eighteen males in all : one Andrena contained three undeveloped males. 

 Mr. Enock followed up this exhibition by an account of his own captures of male 

 Stylops at the same place, and nearly at the same time. He had captured ten on 

 the wing : one Aiidrena contained four individuals. Males were developed from a 

 living Andrena in a pill box during the meeting. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton announced that he had in preparation a Supplement to 

 his "Monograph on the Ephemcridse," chiefly from the materials in the collections 

 of Mr. McLachlan and Mr. H. Albarda. He requested help from any one possessing 

 insects of this fani'ly. It appeared probable that in some genera {ex. gr. Campsurus) 

 the legs were shed with the sub-imaginal pellicle, thus accounting for the nearly 

 legless condition of the imagos. 



Mr. Smith made some remarks on the distribution of some genera of Hymen- 

 opterous insects from New Zealand, according to a coUection placed in his hands by 

 Mr. C. M. Wakefield, in which he was followed by Mr. McLachlan, who remarked 

 on the gradual extinction of the endemic Fauna of New Zealand, although intro- 

 duced forms throve wonderfully. 



The Rev. R. P. Murray stated that he was preparing a list of Japanese Butter- 

 flies, and would be grateful for information, or the loan of specimens, in connection 

 therewith. 



Mr. McLaclilan cxliibited a series of Anomalopteryx Chauviniana, Stein, from 

 Silesia, given to him by the discoverer of the species — Fraulein Marie von Chauvin 

 of Freibm-g. This singular Trichopterous insect pertained to the family Limno- 

 philidee, and was remarkable for the lanceolate anterior, and abbreviated posterior 

 wings of the <J , those of the $ being normal, excepting that the posterior wings 

 were smaller than usual. Also apterpus females of Acentropus niveus received from 

 Mr. Ritsema of Leyden {vide ante p. 257). Further, a microscopic slide with a 

 full-grown female example of Fhylloxera vaslatrix of the root form. This he had 

 recently obtained, with many others, from a vinery near London, which was terribly 

 infested with the insect. . ' 



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