FEBRUARY 13tli, 1908. 



The thirty-soveTith regmlar meeting was held at the usual 

 place, Mr. Giffard in the chair. 



Dr. Perkins and Mr. Kotinsky were appointed a committee 

 to draw up and submit to the Society a list of popular names 

 of the more common economic insects in order to secure uni- 

 formity of use among the local entomologists. 



PAPERS. 



Notes on Hawaiian Insects. 



BY DK. E. C. L. PERKIXS. 



This paprr consisted of general remarks on a number of 

 chiefly undescribed insects, the descriptions of which will appear 

 elsewhere. 



Life History of Ca.ra.drina. reclusa. Walker. 

 BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



This JSToctuid has become quite numerous in Honolulu and 

 the adjacent mountains within the past two or three years. The 

 first that I noticed it was in Kalihi, Oahu, March, 1906, and 

 Hamakua and Kohala, Hawaii. April, 1906. Dr. Perkins had 

 taken specimens a few years previously. During the summer 

 of 1906 certain black caterpillars were observed by Mr. Giffard 

 and Dr. Pe^-kins very abundant on Mt. Tantalus. These on 

 rearing proved to be the moth under consideration. A few 

 months later the same caterpillars were found abundant at 

 MaunaAvili. by Messrs. Giffard and Terry. Since that time, 

 the caterpillars and moths have been observed by different ones 

 at different places in the vicinity of Honolulu and the south- 

 east end of the island. The moth has also been taken on Maui.* 



I recently sent specimens of the moth to Dr. Dyar of the 

 U. S. ISTat. Museum, who identified them as Caradrma reclusa 

 Wlk. In Hampson's "Moths of British India," the habitat of 



*In August 1908. caterpillars were founrl very numerous at Koloa, 

 Kauai. They were in a grove of mountain apple trees (Eugenia malac- 

 censis). They probably had fed on the leaves of the very small 

 trees, which were coming up very numerously, and other herbage: 

 but at the time were feeding largely on the fallen fruit. [O. H. S.] 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 1, Oct., 1908. 



