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December 8, 1922. There were Tineid larvae among the debris 
of dead leaves. It is probable that the beetle and its larvae were 
feeding upon these. This is the first record of this species in 
the Islands. It occurs throughout the United States, and is 
closely related to Plochionus pallens which has been collected 
in houses in Kaimuki by Timberlake and Swezey. 
Pleistodontes imperialis Saund.—Mr. Swezey reported this 
fig-wasp now very well established. The large tree of Ficus 
rubiginosa on the old Tantalus road above Makiki Heights, in 
December, produced a very large crop of fruit (a twig contain- 
ing a dozen iruits being exhibited) due to the presence of the 
fie-wasp. An indication of the abundance of the insect is shown 
by the examination of one fruit which contained 85 (61 females 
and 24 males) of the fig-wasps, already matured, but had not 
issued from the galls where they developed. The fruit also 
contained 155 good seeds. 
Mapsidius quadridentata Walsm.—Mr. Swezey exhibited a 
specimen of this moth, which issued from a cocoon found by 
him on a leaf at 2000 feet elevation, Wailuku, Maui, Decem; 
ber 9, 1922. The position where the cocoon was found indi- 
cated that the larva had fed on Charpentiecra leaves just as do 
the other species of this genus. It was described originally from 
a single specimen from Lanai. 
Supella supellectilium (Serv.).—A specimen of this roach 
was exhibited by Mr. Swezey, who had taken it in the Pioneer 
Hotel, Lahaina, Maui, December 5, 1922. It is the first record 
of the occurrence of this roach on Maui. It was first collected 
by Timberlake in Kaimuki about May, 1921. 
Cyrtorhinus mundulus (Bredd.)—Mr. Swezey reported find- 
ing this bug established in a leafhopper-infested field at Lahaina, 
Maui, December 5, 1922. As no colony of the bug was placed 
on Maui when it was introduced from Australia two years ago, 
it has reached Lahaina by its own efforts, probably from Ewa 
Plantation, where it was very abundant during the early summer 
of 1922. It is a considerable distance (seventy miles or more) 
for a small insect to make its way over seas, and indicates their 
ability to do it in some way or other. 
