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August 2, 1882. 



F. D. GoDMAN, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., &c., Vice-President, in the chair. 



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

 respective donors. 



Election of Member. 

 Mr. Hildebrand Ramsden (26, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, 

 W.C.) was balloted for and elected a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. F. Enock exhibited three males and three females of Macropis 

 labiata, Fabr., which he had captured within the last few days on the banks 

 of the Basingstoke Canal at Woking Station, Surrey. He captured all the 

 specimens whilst standing still, off the flowers of Lysimachla vuhjaris, and 

 especially noticed that the bees arrived from one direction, flying very 

 rapidly. Mr. Enock said the flight of Macropis was much like that of the 

 male Eucera ; next year he hoped to discover the home of the species in 

 his locality. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a pair of Paragus tibialis, Fallen, which he 

 found last June in the burrows of Halictus nitidiusculus ; also a specimen 

 of Discomyza -incurva, Fallen, captured at Box Hill ; this Muscid was 

 unrecorded as British. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe said he captured a specimen of the Discomyza at 

 Folkestone in 1878. 



Mr. A. S. Olliff exhibited seven specimens of Anommatus I'H-striatus, 

 MiilL, captured at Tonbridge last month by Mr. A. C. Horner. They were 

 found in Mr. Horner's garden on two linen-posts, which he had pulled up, 

 from four to six inches below the surface of the ground, where the soil was 

 moist and the stumps rather rotten ; the specimens were captured alniost 

 or quite on the surface of the wood. Another specimen was captured in a 

 strawberry growing about eight feet from a post. The two posts previously 

 mentioned stood about fifteen feet apart. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited bred specimens of Sitones lineatus, L., 

 and read the following: — 



Observations on the Development of Sitones lineatus. 



" At our July meeting I mentioned that the locality of larval life and 



transformations of Sitones piincticollis had recently been observed ; now 



I have the pleasure of being able to say that during the last month notes 



have been forwarded to me regarding the feeding-place in the larval stage 



