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whose larvae are often so uumerous on many kinds of plants, 

 trees and shrnbs. The green larvae sometimes eat the yonng 

 fruits of the orange and aligator pear, if a leaf lies near or in 

 contact. It has recently been described by Mr. Busck in Proc. 

 Wash. Ent. Soc., XI, p. 201, 1909. It is a Mexican species, 

 there being specimens in the United States National Museum 

 from several places in Mexico, also from Costa Rica. 



Cyaxe teepsichokella Busck. 



This is the '"Dancing Moth" discussed on page 20 of Bull. 

 6, Div. Ent., IT, S. P. A. Mr. Busck thinks that this Tineid 

 is probably of Central American origin. 



The second and fourth species above, Mr. Busck found to 

 be undescribed, and he has named them as given above, in- 

 tending to describe them in the forthcoming number of Proc. 

 Wash.^Ent. Soc* 



One of the visitors, Mr. Louis Margolin, of the Federal 

 Eorest Service, w^as asked tO make a few remarks on some of 

 his observations during his visit on the islands. Mr. Margolin 

 said that, not being an entomologist, but, however, being in- 

 terested in entomology, he wanted to state that while on Maui 

 his attention was drawn to the dying koa forest near Kailiili. 

 The ]ieople there were very much alarmed at the rapid passing 

 of the trees and believed it to be insect work. Several mem- 

 bers of the Society, in discussing the matter, stated that no 

 insect was known to attack the trunks of healthy koa trees, and 

 that, in their opinion, the probable cause was bacteria in the 

 soil, similar cases having been determined by investigators on 

 the ISTahiku forest. 



A member present inquired into the advisability of intro- 

 ducing woodpeckers which, he thought, would help reduce 

 some of the wood-boring beetles. Prof. Bryan, being j^resent, 

 the Chairman referred the matter to him. He gave a very in- 

 teresting talk on the possibilities of introducing a few useful 

 birds, but warned the members of promiscuous introductions, 

 owing to the changeable habits some birds had exhibited after 

 being introduced. He cited the mynah bird as an example. 

 He also mentioned the possible danger of our red-headed wood- 

 pecker scattering the seeds of the Hitchcock berry (Ruhus ja- 

 maicensis) . If any introductions were to be made of woodpeck- 



* Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc. xii. No. 3, pp. 132-134, 1910.— [Ed.] 



