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however, are much too meager to shed much light on the dis- 

 tribution, interrelationships and possible intergradations of the 

 species or forms allied to flavus. 



ApJiyconiorpha araucariae Timberlake was reared first in 

 July, 1906, by Mr. Kotinsky from Eriococcus araucaria", Mas- 

 kell collected on the grounds of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Forestry at Honolulu, his rearing being represented by four 

 broken specimens. More recently Mr. Fullaway has reared a 

 small series from the same locality and host, and I obtained a 

 few specimens from the Moanalua Gardens in May, 1918. As 

 the host and food-plant of the host in this case are both of 

 Australian or Isew Zealand origin there can be but little doubt 

 that the parasite also was derived from that part of the world 



Comperiella bifasciata Howard was introduced at Honolulu 

 in 1908 from the Orient, presumably from China, as noted by 

 Kotinsky in the Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, Vol. 5, 

 p. 148, July, 1908. A single specimen, however, was reared 

 before that time in August, 1905, by Kotinsky from an Aspidi- 

 otus on Bomhax ceiha. The species has never been taken since 

 and its establishment here is therefore doubtful. It was re- 

 corded ])y Fullaway as Cerapterocerus species on Aspidiotus. 



Aiiicetus annulatus Timberlake has been established in the 

 Islands apparently for a considerable period of years, as it is 

 widely distributed on Oahu and Kauai. It is nevertheless 

 rarely taken and the specimens in the local collections are few 

 in number. The earliest specimen that I have seen was reared 

 by Mr. Fullaway, April 25, 1912, supposedly from Saisseiia 

 hemisphaericn (Targ.), but this host record is probably incor- 

 rect as all the subsequent reared specimens have come from 

 Eucalymnatus tessellatus (Sigiioret). I hardly question the 

 Oriental origin of annulatus although no specimens from that 

 part of the world have come to hand. The genus, moreover, 

 seems to have originated in the warmer parts of the Old World, 

 as the three species described previously by Howard and Gi- 

 rault were collected in Ceylon, China and Queensland respect- 

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