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Oat of seventeen names siveu ahuve. only five occur in Ilillebrand's Flora, 

 besides the eomniou name Olia-wiii : for the remaining- names tlie writer is in- 

 debted to Mv. Francis Gay of Kanai. who knows the Kauai i)hints l)y their 

 respective native names. The writer liad the ph'asure of camping with ;\[r. Gay 

 in tile mountains of Kiiuai and this eiiahliMl liini tn associate the luitive names 

 with the ])laiits to wliirh thi-y lielongetl. 



INSECTS OCCURRING ON PLANTS OF THE 

 LOBELIOIDEAE IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



J3y Otto II. Swezey. 



The species of this family are not much attacked by insects. Those which 

 do attack them are not particularly injurious to the plants. The fact that so 

 few insects attack the Lolieliaceae accounts for there having been less special 

 attention given to collecting in.sects from thesi' plants than lo many others 

 which yield insects in greater numbers. 



Some of the insects mentioned below may lie specially attached to their 

 respective plants, not having been reared from others ; but the records are alto- 

 gether too meager to state with certainty until more observations are made. 

 The following list is made up from the records of several entomologists: Dr. 

 Perkin.s, Messrs Giffard, Swezey. Timberlake and Bridwell. These records are 

 almost entirely from collecting on the island of Oahu. If special collecting 

 should be done on the Lobeliaceae on the other islands no doul>t many more 

 species could ]»■ addi'cl to the list. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Family ('arixisiiiidae. 



Hetefocrossa dlivaccoiiiti us. This moth has often been reared from larvae 

 in the fruit and dower buds of ('liriiKmliii h'iil:ra)ia. It has been reared also 

 from various other kinds of fruits. 



Heterocrossa gemmata. This moth has been reared from the flowers and fruit 

 of Rollandia, and from the fruit of Clenaoiitia. 



Heterocrossa criiiifcra. This species occurs as a leaf-miner in h'oUnnclin 

 Thtmholdtiaim. 



Heterocrossa sp. An undetermined species reared on one occasion from a 

 larva boring in stem of C'l/aiica. 



Family Hiiixninmnitidnc. 



Hijpirddsi/s ( rmiloijiniiidliis. This moth was reared from a larva in the 

 dead stem of Cln'moiilia. It has been found in dead wood of other kinds as 

 well. 



DIPTERA. 



Family Agroiiij/^idar. 



Agroniij:ii sp. On ,i few occasions the leaves of Clcrmontia persicifolia have 

 been found mined with the larvae of a flv. but none were reared to maturitv. 



