Uye, Esq., of Parkfield, Putney; Charles Fenu, Esq., of Lee, Keut ; George 

 Lewis, Esq., of Queen's Road, Putney ; John Dunning Kay, Esq., of Leeds ; 

 and William Charles Copperthwaite, Esq., of the Lodge, Malton. Also, 

 Benjamin A.. Bower, Esq., of Lee, Kent, was balloted for and elected a 

 Subscriber. 



Exhihitians, dc. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited a specimen of Xylina lambda, taken near Erith, 

 in September last, by Mr. W. Marshall, being the fifth instance of its 

 having been taken in Britain, Also Ebulea stachydalis, taken by himself 

 at Kingsbury, ]\[iddlesex, in June, 186'2. 



Mr, Champion exhibited a specimen of -cEgialia rufa, Fab., taken by 

 Mr, Sidebotham, of Bowdon, near Southport, and he brought specimens of 

 Psammodius sulcicollis sent by Mr. Sidebotham for distribution amongst 

 the Members. 



The President made some observations respecting the habits of the 

 common gnat, in continuation of his remarks at the meeting of 4th 

 November, 1872. [See ' Proceedings,' 1872, p. xxxi.] Large numbers of 

 females had again appeared in his house at Oxford, not a single male 

 having been observed ; and he believed that they had hybernated in the 

 house, appearing during the first warm days of spring. He also remarked 

 that Dr, Leconte's valuable collection of Coleoptera had been presented to 

 the University at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Sir Sidney S. Saunders exhibited two examples of Stylops Kirbii, taken 

 on the wing by him at Hampstead, in the forenoon of the previous day. 

 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 time. He 

 captured eleven on the wing, and one Andrena was taken with four 

 individuals. 



Mr. Eatou stated that he was preparing a Supplement (dealing with the 

 limitation of the genera) to his " Monograph on the Ephemeridic " (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc, 1871). A considerable amount of new material had been most 

 kindly submitted to him by Mr, Robert M'Lachlan, of Lewisham, and 

 M, Herman Albarda, of Leeuwarden, comprising specimens from almost all 

 parts of the world. Amongst the most interesting were some specimens in 

 fluid from South America, and a collection from Sumatra, From the 

 Amazonian collection in spirits, it would appear that the deficiency in legs 

 in Campsurus and some of its allies was due to their being shed with the 

 pupa-skin when the insect obtained well-developed wings. In some forms 

 all of the legs were then cast off" by the female (this was apparently the case 

 with Euthyplocia also) ; in others the anterior pair of legs was retained by 

 the female, as it was seemingly by all males. The separation of the legs 

 cast off" takes place between the femur and the trochanter. The posterior 



