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insect very commonly in several localities in the North and 
South islands of New Zealand. Also, that it appears to be 
practically confined to the native and imported conifers, occur- 
ring under the bark and in the decaying wood of old logs, 
and not in the living tree. It is the weevil from rotten wood, 
mentioned on pages 374 and 382 of Proceedings Haw. Ent. 
Soc, lle Non Selo ls: 
Metamasius ritchiet Marshall—Mr. Ehrhorn exhibited a 
specimen of this pineapple weevil, which came from Jamaica. 
He stated that it does extensive damage to the fruits, stems, 
and the roots of pineapple plants, and that a living larva of 
this species had been found in some pineapple plants that were . 
imported into Honolulu from Mexico. 
Gitonides perspicax Knab.—Mr. Timberlake exhibited four 
specimens of this Drosophilid, reared from a mealy bug on 
sugar cane at Halifax, Queensland, by Mr. Muir in March and 
April, 1920. The species is apparently widely distributed, as 
Knab records it from Manila, Philippine Islands, and Pusa, 
India, as well as from Honolulu. Mr. Muir states that it 
occurs in Java. 
Itoplectis immigrans 'Timb.—Mr. Timberlake called to at- 
tention that Dr. Perkins, in a recent letter to the Experiment 
Station, states that this “is the species which I referred to in 
the Fauna as commonplace—no doubt without justification, but 
at the same time the only species of the subfamily I had spe- 
cially studied were the fine ‘Rhiyssa’ group and other con- 
spicuous tropical things, and I must have been thinking of these 
at the time. Of this J/toplectis, I took a female with much 
broken wings in 1901 in Honolulu. This differs from several 
later caught ones (1904) in having only the small apical seg- 
ment black and the propodeum reddish, but it is clearly the 
same species. It is even possible it may have become darker 
since its introduction.” 
In another letter, Dr. Perkins mentioned that he had once 
seen this species in large numbers, and curious enough all his 
specimens except one were from Oahu. 
Mr. Timberlake remarked that the species must have be- 
come much rarer in recent years on Oahu, as it has not been 
