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among a small collection of flies received at the Bishop Museum 
from Mr. E. Robertson, Tanna Island, New Hebrides. It is 
sometimes called the “winged horse tick” of Europe, and has 
also been recorded by Loew from North America, according 
to Aldrich’s Catalogue. 
Rhodesiella tarsalis Adams.—Mr. Bryan noted that the series 
of specimens in the H. S. P. A. collection marked “Rhopalom- 
elidae, Rhinotora?” from Tantalus, Oahu, 6-19-21 (Swezey), 
Grove Farm, Kauai, 3-2-17, Honolulu, VII-1-16 (Ehrhorn), 
“observed on leaves infested with Pseudococcus nipae,” and on 
window 4-23-14 (Swezey), belong to this species, as does also 
a single specimen of this fly collected by Giffard on the window 
at his home January, 1923. 
Phormia regina Meigen.—Mr. Bryan stated that this fly had 
been recorded from Hawaii by Dr. L. O. Howard (Proc. Ent. 
Soc., Washington, IV, p. 490, July, 1901), but that its occur- 
rence here was questioned by local entomologists. In reply to 
his inquiry concerning this fly, Dr. Aldrich wrote as follows 
January 19, 1923: 
“On looking at our collection I found three female speci- 
mens, two collected by H. W. Henshaw in 1900, on the volcano 
Nilauea; and one from Hilo, Hawaii, collected by William H. 
Ashmead, July 6, 1901. The last I am sending you, together 
with a male and female from the United States.”’ 
Lonchoptera sp—Mr. Bryan stated that a single specimen 
in the collection of the Bishop Museum, collected by Mr. Gif- 
fard at Twenty-nine Miles, Olaa, Hawaii, August, 1922, was 
determined as belonging to the family Longchopteridae by its 
striking and characteristic antennae and wing venation ( Willis- 
ton, N. A. Diptera, p. 240). This family of flies contains but a 
single genus, Lonchoptera. No specimens of this family have 
hitherto been reported from Hawaii. 
Diocalandra taitensis (Guer.).— Mr. Swezey exhibited a 
piece cut from a leaf stem of coconut palm, showing the char- 
acteristic exit holes and borings of the Tahiti coconut weevil. 
He had obtained this from a leaf which had fallen from a 
thirty-foot high palm tree on Kinau street, Honolulu, February 
