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effort to secure the presence of noted entomologists at the Pan- 

 Pacific Scientific Congress. 



Mr. Willard reported that the committee appointed to con- 

 sider the use of the loquat as a forest cover in relation to the 

 fruitfly menace had not been able to meet as a body. He, how- 

 ever, stated that the unanimous opinion of the members of the 

 committee was to the effect that as a general proposition fruit 

 trees, including the loquat, should not be used for reforestation 

 purposes. In a lengthy discussion entered into by Messrs. Ehr- 

 horn, Swezey, Willard, Crawford, and Dr. Lyon, who dropped 

 in as a visitor, there seemed to be a feeling that the use of the 

 loquat in reforestation might be under certain circumstances a 

 distinct benefit with regard to the parasitic control of the fruit- 

 fly, although there was hesitancy among the members of the 

 Society to recommend its use. Dr. Lyon stated that he had 

 proposed the use of the loquat as a barrier along the lower edge 

 of the native forest on the Hamakua Coast, and that there was 

 no fruit-growing industry in that part of the island which could 

 be menaced by a possible increase of the fruitfly. The matter 

 was laid over to the next meeting for further consideration. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITIONS. 



Arnmophorus insularis. — Mr. Swezey exhibited four speci- 

 mens of this beetle collected in Kaimuki by Horace Sharp, April 

 5, 1920. More specimens had been collected and some sent for 

 determination to Dr. E. C. Van Dyke at Berkeley, Calif., who 

 considers them to belong to A. insularis Boheman. The species 

 was described in 1858 from Honolulu and had never been col- 

 lected since. 



Cclcrio perkinsi. — Mr. Swezey exhibited an adult of this 

 endemic Sphingid reared from a caterpillar captured on Kadua, 

 in Waialae Iki Valley on March 21, 1920. He also exhibited a 

 caterpillar collected on Kadua at the same place, on May 2, 

 1920, and an egg from which 22 parasites {Trichograimna semi- 

 fumatum) had issued a few days after being collected. Four 

 eggs were collected and all were parasitized. 



Hypocala andremona. — Mr. Swezey exhibited a specimen of 



