4966 Tue ZooLocist—JuUNE, 1876. 
Election of Members. 
The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members 
of the Society :—Joseph William Douglas, Esq., of Lee, Kent: Edward C. 
Rye, Esq., of Parkfield, Putney; Charles Fenn, Esq., of Lee, Kent; 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. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
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, Middlesex, in June, 1862. 
Mr. Champion exhibited a specimen of Adgialia 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. Eaton stated that he was preparing a Supplement (dealing with the 
limitation of the genera) to his ‘‘ Monograph on the Ephemeride ” (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 
