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which immigrant insects may arrive in sjnte of ])resent effi- 

 cient qnarantine methods. 



]\Ir. Gitfard rehited the manner in which cerraiii termites 

 reached Honolnhi in army hed cots from the iMiili]i]tines after 

 the Spanish- American War. hecame estahli-hc(l ai the water- 

 front and have spread to other ])arts. 



Mr. Ehrhorn rehited thc" interce])tinii' ''f teniiires in a sliip- 

 iiient of lianana phints and yams from the Philippines. They 

 were in great qnantities in the shipping hoxes, and were 

 l)romptly incinerated in the phmt (jnarantine laboratory. 



Mr. ^[nir reported that it is believed the rhinoceros beetle 

 was introdnced into Samoa in the sleeping mats of immigrants 

 tVom India, as it liad been fonnd nnder such circnmstances. 



■Jassid OH Amaranth. — ]\[r. Ehrhorn exhibited specimens 

 of a small green Jassid collected by him recently on the weed, 

 Amarantus spinosus,- near his office at the waterfront, ft was 

 apparently a different species from the other similar dassids 

 occnrring on grasses here, and probably is a new immigrant, 



DECEMBEE 12Tir, 1918. 



The one hnndred fifty-ninth meeting of the Societ.v was 

 held in the nsual place, Vice-President Timberlake in the 

 chair. Other members present: INfessrs, Bridwell, Crawford, 

 Ehrhorn, Enllaway, Giffard. Crrinncdl, ^Inir, Potter, Rosa, 

 Swezey and Williams. 



]\rinntes of ])revious meeting i-ead, corrected and a])]n'ove(l. 



Tn behalf of the Committee to investigate the ginger 

 wee\il, ^Jr. Swezey reported that all the infe>te(l plants at 

 Air. Sherman's jesidence had been dug np and bnrned. Later, 

 the weevil was fonnd in a patcdi of ginger on the Tantalus 

 Trail, near the Schaefer residence, bnt other patches of ginger 

 at higher elevations on Tantalus and in Xnnanu Valley were 

 founil un infested. TTe had reared adnlt specimens from larvae 

 previously brought in. ^\y. Ehrhorn reported that an examina- 

 tion of the records of (puirantine inspection disclosed no record 



