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speeiuiens of this beetle bred from larvae found in Platydesma 

 campiuiulata near Glenwood, Hawaii, March 2ud, 1919. They 

 are strongly marked with yellow, and apparently an nnde- 

 serilied species. 



Mcf/atrioza pahnuoJa. — ^Ir. Crawford reported that on ex- 

 amination of Psyllid adults and nymphs from palm from Glen- 

 wood. Hawaii, handed him by ^Ir. Swezey. he considered them 

 identical with or a variation of the species on palm on Oahu. 

 The nymphs of the Hawaii form have the marginal hairs or 

 projections much enlarged. 



Psyllids from Piiii^Iuu. — Mr. Bridwell exhibited two spe- 

 cies of Psyllids from Punaluu, l)Oth apparently new. 



JrXE :.th. I'.il!". 



The 105th meeting of the Society was held in the usual 

 place Vice-President Crawford in the chair. Other members 

 present : Messrs. Bridwell. Fullaway. Pemberton. Rosa. Swe- 

 zey and Timberlake. Professor H. E. Gregory, Acting Di- 

 rector of the Bishop !Museum, was present as a visitor. 



^Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. 



]\[r. Swezey presented a letter from the Director of the 

 Exjjeriment Station. H. S. P. A., extending to the Society the 

 pvivilege of making the experiment statiou luiilding its head- 

 quarters as well as a depository for its library and collections. 



PAPEK. 



The Insect Fauna of the Hawaiian Bunch Grasses (Eragrostis 

 variabilis and Allies). 



BY .lOJIX (OLBTKX Bl^IDWELL. 



There are several species of Eragrostis in the Hawaiian 

 Islands which are closely allied and have similar habitus, oc- 

 curring usually in the bare wind-swept pali faces, sometimes 

 in ratlier moist bx-alities, sometimes in resrions which re- 



Proc. Haw. Entoni. Soc. TV. Xo. 2. June. 1920. 



