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occurring there. A single specimen of the egg-parasite was col- 
lected in a cane patch on the island of Tau of the Manu’a group, 
which proves to be the Fijian species mentioned. 
Rhabdocnemis obscura (Boisd.). 
The cane borer was generally present and quite injurious. 
In some places worse than others, sometimes scarce and hard to 
find in cane patches. Often it was easier to find in coconut 
trees, where its larvae were in the bases of old leafstalks, usu- 
ally the stubs where leaves had been cut off. 
A colony of the New Guinea Tachinid fly parasitic on the 
larvae of this borer was sent to the Naval Station, Pago Pago, 
in 1918. I learned that the flies had been liberated in a cane 
patch at a Samoan village on Pago Pago harbor. As I was 
not able to find any of the parasites anywhere that I looked, 
it must have failed to become established. If it had succeeded 
in establishing, it could have spread quite generally by this 
time. Other colonies of this parasite have recently been sent in 
further attempts to establish it there. 
Elytroteinus subtruncatus (Fairm.). 
A beetle which has been known as the ginger weevil, was 
found in cane along with the cane-borer in a cane patch on the 
side of the mountain above Fagasa village. Quite a number of 
larvae were found, mostly in broken off canes lying on the 
ground and already somewhat bored by larvae of Rhabdocnemis 
obscura. A few pupae were found which were saved till they 
matured to the adult beetles. The identity of the species was 
verified by Dr. G. A. K. Marshall of the Imperial Bureau of 
Entomology. 
Longicorn beetle. 
A few larvae of a Longicorn beetle were found in dead 
canes on the ground in the same cane patch at Fagasa. These 
were not reared, so their identity is not known. They were 
probably some dead-wood borer, and not a particular cane 
insect, probably only attacking dead canes. 
Melanitis leda Linn. 
On two occasions the larva of this butterfly was found 
feeding on cane leaves. One of them was reared, thus proving 
