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a Japanese passenger on a steamer, specimens of singing 
crickets being used as pets. 
Dichocrocis punctiferalis Gn—Mr. Ehrhorn exhibited 7 
Pyralid moths of this species, reared from pupae found on 
five-leaved pine in conservatory of the Japanese steamer “’Tenyo 
Maru” while in port June 8, 1921. This was on the return 
trip of the steamer from San Francisco. Infestation must 
have occurred while the steamer was at some Oriental port, 
the moth having a range all the way from Japan to India 
and to Australia. The moths issued four days after the pupae 
were collected on the steamer, and well illustrates how insects 
infesting plants on steamers could mature while the steamer 
was in port and come ashore. Probably a number of our 
introduced pests have arrived here in just this way. Some 
specimens of a Xylorictid moth (Ptochoryctis tsugensis Kear.) 
were reared from the same material as the above. 

AUGUST 4th, 1921. 
The 190th meeting of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 
was held at the usual place, with President Timberlake in the 
chair. Other members present were Messrs. Bissell, Fullaway, 
Muir, Osborn, Whitney, Wilder, and Willard. Dr. Kunhi 
Kannan of Bangalore, India, was a visitor. 
Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 
PAPERS READ. 
“Description of a Cuckoo-Wasp from the Hawaiian Islands 
(Hymenoptera).” 
BY S. A. ROHWER, 
Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
“Conditions of Entomological Work in India.” 
BY DR. K. KUNHI KANNAN, 
Government Entomologist, Bangalore, India. 
NOTES AND EXHIBITIONS. 
Ptinus brunneus Dufts——Mr. Timberlake exhibited a speci- 
men of this beetle collected in Honolulu November, 1909, by 
Mr. D. B. Langford. This is an imported species that has 
never been recorded from the Islands. 
