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MAY 4tii, 1911. 



The seventy-foil I'tli regular meeting of the Society was held 

 in the usual place. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL PR0(;KAM. 



Notes on the Large House Spider, Heteropoda regia. 



BY E. M. EHRJIORX. 



On Januarv 29th, 1911, I caught a female Heteropoda 

 regia with a rather large abdomen, and placed her in a breeding 

 jar. I fed her on flies and other insects, and on February 

 8th, during the night she made her egg cocoon and laid the 

 eggs, at least on the morning of February 9, I found the egg- 

 sac complete under her body and she carried it about without 

 much inconvenience. On March 17th, I noticed that the edges 

 of the e!gg-sac were opening and I could see a few small spiders, 

 the egg-sac had turned much darker. On March 25th all the 

 young spiders had left the egg-sac and I counted 197 of them, 

 and in the egg-sac I found 10 eggs, probably unfertile ones, 

 making a total of 207 individuals had all hatched. 



Mr. Fnllaway gave some breeding notes of life history, etc., 

 of Hyalopeplus pellucidus and Lycaena haetica. They were 

 to be published in full in the Annual Report of the Hawaii Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Mr. Ehrhoni exhibited specimens of an unidentified, prob- 

 ably recently introduced Ichneumonid,* collected by Mr. W. 

 Weinrich on Sisal plant at Sisal, Oahu. Messrs. Swezey and 

 Fnllaway recognized it as the same that they had been catching 

 lately in various places on Oahu. 



]\lr. Ehrhorn also reported that ^fr. Weinrich had found 

 the ]\lediterranean fruit fly breeding in oranges at Kalauao. 

 Mr. Fnllaway said that Mr. Austin had found the peaches in- 

 fested with this fly at Moknleia. These observations show that 

 it is now probably distributed over the entire island. 



Mr. Terry exhibited an illustration of beetles caught on 

 heads of grass, Ccnelirus cchlnatus, in Cuba. This was in a 

 paper by E. A. Schwarz, and is a similar phenomenon to that 

 exhibited by ^Ir. Severiii at the previous meeting. 



*Crem(inliis Jnnnriiidc Crawf. See Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 40, p. 

 189, 1911 and U. S. Bureau Ent., Bui. 109, pt I, p. 7, 1911.— [Ed.] 



