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ers he thought that species from the Pliilipiiinc Islands aii<l 

 East Indies wouhl he more a])t to prove suceessfiil, though on 

 a whok' tlie iutroduetiou of hirds shouhl he controlled under 

 strictly scientitic supervision autl their hahils shouhl he oh- 

 served in large enclosures for a sufKcieut i)eri(Kl to determine 

 whether or not their feeding liahits wouhl change. A lengthy 

 discussion' followed, enihracing the introduction of seeds and 

 plants, and several mendx'rs present testified to their experience 

 with some of our herrv plants adopting an entirely different 

 habit from their usual growth, with a yield of poor, insignifi- 

 cant fruit. Several grasses were cited as being good forage 

 plants on the mainland, but inferior forage here and acting 

 more as weeds. Much stress was laid on the importance of hav- 

 ing the Federal Experiment Stati<m make tests of all seed intro- 

 ductions to permanently settle the cpiestion of whether seed 

 plants or grasses should be allowed to be planted in the islands. 



:\[AY :>Tii. 11>10. 



The sixty-third regular meeting of the Society was liehl in 

 the regular place. 



PAPERS KI'LM). 



Some Recent Weevil Determinations. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



CaPvYoboeus gonagea (Fab.) 



This is the large Bruchid which began to attract attention 

 late in the summer of 1908. It is now very abundant and 

 widely distributed on the lowlands of Oalin, but has not as yet 

 been reported from the other Islamls. ■ It breeds in the ])ods of 

 algaroba, glue bush, tamarinds, several cultivated cassias and 

 other legumes. I recently came across a figure of Caryohoni.^ 

 gonagra (Fab.) in Dr. Maxwell-Lefroy's new l)ook. Indian In- 

 sect Life, which looked very much like our insect. Looking up 

 the description in Schoenherr's Catalogue of the Curculionidae, 

 it was found to correspond well. I then sent specimens to Dr. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 4, April, 1912. 



