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in London, is very destructive to dried fish in Honokilu. Newly 

 emerged beetles were confined in glass jars and their life-history 

 studied. After a pre-oviposition period of some ten days, eggs are 

 laid in any available crevice and hatch in about three days. The 

 larvae moult six times and then leave their food in order to pupate, 

 sometimes boring into cork or wood to find a hiding place. The com- 

 plete Ufe-cycle requires 64 days. Adults were kept for 3 months 

 in the glass jars without water or air, but abundantly supplied with 

 dried fish. Apparently they can subsist and reproduce generation after 

 generation in this way. 



SwEZEY (0. H.). New Records of Insects on Kauai.— Proc. Hawaiian 

 Entom. Soc. for the Year 1917, Honolulu, iii, no, 5, April 1918, 

 pp. 379-380. "* 



The Ichneumonid, Cremastus hymeniae, was found abundantly 

 parasitising Nacoleia (Omiodes) blackburni (coconut leaf-roller). One 

 example was bred from Cryptophlebia illepida in a pod of Acacia 

 farnesiana. Pseudogonatopus hospes, a Chinese Dryinid parasitic on 

 the sugar-cane leaf-hopper [Perkinsiella saccharicida], occurred in 

 cane-fields. A hyper-parasite on Dryinids, Helegonatopus pseudophanes, 

 also occurred. The Tachinid imported from New Guinea, Ceromasia 

 sphenophori, was found parasitising both larvae and pupae of Rhabdoc- 

 tiemis obscurus (sugar-cane borer) in the bases of petioles of coconuts. 

 This is the first record in the Islands of this fly attacking the borer 

 larvae in any other plant than sugar-cane. The Pompilid wasp, 

 Psammochares luctuosus, was observed in cane-fields. Sarcophaga 

 haemorrhoidalis was attracted abundantly in some localities to the 

 juice on the cane in cane-cars at the mills. The grasshopper, Atraclo- 

 morpha crenaticeps, is recorded for the first time on any of the Hawaiian 

 Islands except Oahu. The same may be said of Gryllotalpa africana 

 (mole-cricket). 



TiMBERLAKE (P. H.). Notcs] OH Somc of the Immigrant Parasitic 

 Hymenoptera of the Hawaiian Islands. — Proc. Haioaiian Entom. 

 Soc. for the Year 1917, Honolulu, iii, no. 5, April 1918, pp. 399-401 



A comparison of the introduced or immigrant Hawaiian parasitic 

 Hymenoptera with United States types has resulted in a certain 

 revision of the identification of several species. The Ichneumonid, 

 Hemiteles tenellus, Say {variegatus, Ashm., melitaeae, Ashm.) is the 

 name adopted for the Hawaiian parasite belonging to this genus ; 

 it is frequently reared in the Islands from cocoons of Chrysopa 

 microphya. Angitia polynesialis, Cam. {A. pilutellae, Vier., A. hellulae, 

 Vier.) is usually bred from Plutella macidipennis, Curtis, in Hawaii 

 as in the United States. It is not unlikely that this species occurs 

 in Europe and an earlier name may possibly be found for it. The 

 Biaconid, Diaeretus chenopodiaphidis, Ashm., and not D. rapae, Curtis, 

 is reared in Hawaii from Aphis brassicae,li. , and Myzus {Rhopalosiphum) 

 persicae, Sulz. A small species of Opius that has recently been bred 

 from Agromyza on Lantana is considered to be most probably a new 

 species close to 0. nanus, Prov. The Pteromalid, Pachyneuron 

 siphonophorae, Ashm., of which P. micans, How., is considered a 



