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Diachasma Fullawayi. 



Oahu : 



Alewa Heights 50 50 



Kalihi 150 150 



Maui : 



Kula 120 120 



Opius humilis. 

 Oahu : 



Kalihi 200 200 



Maui : 



Kula 50 50 



Dirhinus gifardi. 



Males and Females. 

 Oahu : 



Kalihi 200 



Maui : 



Kula . 250 



Galesus silvestri. 

 Oahu : 



Kalihi 200 



Maui : 



Kula 350 



T etrastichus Gifardianus. 



Female. 

 Oahu : 



Alewa Heights 300 



Kalihi 1,400 



Maui : 



Kula 1,600 



Male. 



The Entomologist was employed during the month in attending to the 

 direction of field work in Australia, Philippine Islands, Hong Kong and 

 India, and arranging for work in S. W. United States and Mexico. One 

 consignment of dung beetles was received from Mr. Illingworth in Aus- 

 tralia, w^hich is being held in the quarantine room of the H. S. P. A. Ex- 

 periment Station for emergence of adults. Mr. H. F. Willard of the Bureau 

 of Entomology returned on the 27th inst. with beans and pods of Acacia 

 farnesiana containing Bruclius sallei and its parasites: Ascana ^emifumi- 

 pennis, UrosigalpJius bruchi, Horismenus sp. Lariophngus iexanus, Hetero- 

 spilus prosopidis, Cerambycobius amicus and Glyptocolastes bruchivorus, col- 

 lected by Mr. J. C. Bridwell of the Bureau of Entomology at Brownsville, 

 Texas, after six months' study of weevil parasitism in this locality. Some of 

 these species are already established in the Islands and have proved very 

 beneficial; it is desired to establish others also, in order to give a greater 

 measure of relief to the bean industry, which suffers heavy losses with each 

 crop by weevil injury. The material brought by Mr. Willard was unpacked 

 in the quarantine room of the H. S. P. A. Experiment Station and the 

 parasites removed. About 400 individuals of Urosigalphus bruchi were lib- 

 crated by Mr. Willard at once, half in a grove of kiawe trees at Ewa, half 

 among klu (Acacia farnesiana) at Waialae. The other species are being 

 held for multiplication and further study in the quarantine room of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry, at the Government Nursery. The Ento- 

 mologist is assisting in this work, and it is intended to release only those 

 species which prove to be primary parasites of strict habit. The rearing and 

 liberating of the fern weevil parasite introduced from Australia has con- 



