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insect anywhere except on Oahu. It was collected in houses 
by Blackburn. Perkins collected it outside as well. Mr. 
Swezey has collected two specimens at the experiment station 
of the H. S. P. A. (one on a vine), and one at Kaimuki, all 
of which were collected in 1911. 
Oxydema fusiforme Woll.—Mr. Swezey called attention to 
Dr. Marshall’s paper on Samoan Curculionids in the last issue 
of Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc., vol. IV, where, on page 596, the 
weevil described as Pseudolus hospes by Perkins in the Fauna 
Hawaiiensis, is determined as Oxrydema fusiforme Woll., origi- 
nally described from Ceylon, but known also from Seychelles, 
Rodriguez and Marquesas, and now from Upolu Island, Samoa. 
Micromus vinaceus—Mr. Swezey exhibited a specimen of 
this Australian Hemerobiid, collected by him in Manoa Valley 
at the cane plots of the experiment station, H. S. P. A,, at 
the back part of the valley, August 9, 1921. This is the first 
specimen to be recovered on the island of Oahu since their 
liberation in large numbers in 1919 and 1920. He reported 
also, finding all stages of this Hemerobiid on aphis-infested 
okra in the garden of the Hilo Hotel, Hilo, Hawaii, July 25, 
1021. Brother Matthias Newell had previously observed this 
insect established in Hilo. 
Platyedra gossypiella—Mr. Swezey reported breeding three 
specimens of this moth from the flower buds of Hibiscus 
youngianus, found growing along the Volcano Road about six 
miles south of Hilo, Hawaii, July 25, 1921. Quite a large 
proportion of the buds on the plants were attacked by the 
larvae. A female Pristomerus hawaiiensis was bred from one 
larva of the lot. He reported also finding this same plant 
with flower buds attacked by larvae of P. gossypiella in Wai- 
mea Canyon, Kauai, September 4,.1921. It thus seems that 
this plant is one of the common hosts of the pink boll-worm. 
Parandra puncticeps—Mr. Swezey exhibited a chip from 
a standing dead koa tree at Halemanu, Kauai, showing the 
egg in situ of this Prionid beetle. ‘The tree from wlfich this 
was taken was a large dead trunk from which the bark had 
loosened, but not yet fallen away. Fourteen beetles were found 
beneath the bark of this and other similar trees nearby. The 
