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 JULY 11th, 1918. 



The one hundred fifty-fourth meeting of the Society was 

 held in the usual place, President Pemberton in the chair. 

 Other members present : Messrs. Bridwell, Ehrhorn, Fullaway, 

 Kuhns, Rosa, Swezey, Timberlake and Willard. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



The Secretary read a letter from the Trustees of the Ha- 

 waiian Sugar Planters' Association stating that $350. yearly 

 had been appropriated by the Association toward the expenses 

 of publication of the Proceedings. 



A vote of thanks was extended to the Association. 



A communication was read from the Washington Entomo- 

 logical Society enclosing a set of rules adopted by that Society 

 for the guidance of the Editor in the publication of new species 

 in the Society's publications, and asking our Society to adopt 

 them. The matter was referred to a Committee composed of 

 Messrs. Swezev, Bridwell and Timberlake. 



PAPER. 



Notes on Nesomimesa antennata (Smith) (Hymenoptera). 



BY JOH^S" COLBUKX BKIDWELL. 



Mr. Williams' observations^ on the habits of the Hawaiian 

 species of this genus has confirmed the opinion some of us 

 have held that the observations of Dr. Perkins in regard to this 

 genus attacking craneflies were in some w^ay exceptional or 

 l^jeculiar and that the real habits would be found different. 

 ]\rr. Swezey had previously found the Oahu species carrying 

 leafhoppers of the Cixiid genus Oliarus. On Juno 9, while 

 collecting upon the Lanihuli ridge bounding IvTunanu Valley 

 to the north-west, Nesomimesa antennata (Smith) was found 

 in very large numbers flying about in the drizzly rain over the 



* See pages 63-68 following. [Ed.] 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IV, No. i, June, 1919. 



