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Diptora. — I )irr(ni()tin/i(i s]». ( larxac iiiiiiiiiii' in leaves of ('yr- 

 i(indnt), Fipiniculiis sp., Dij.scrilo)it i/ia sp., several s})eei(^s of 

 Drosopliilidae and of other families. 



Colcoptera. — Coelophora inequ.alls, ScynDius vividua, cii!;lit 

 species of Proterhinus, one Aniiol)ii(l, two Carabids, two Niti- 

 dnlids, four Elaterids. 



Ortliopetera. — Brack ymclopn ld(U-l:hitnii . I'aralrigonldiiirii 

 sp., Luboptera exlraiiea. 



Heteroptera. — lied u viol us liisriosKs, U. sidtrufas, Occhdlia 

 (/risen, Nysiiis sp., several spcx'ies of Oapsids. 



Ilonioptera. — One species of Psyllidaci (on nativ(^ ])alni), 

 lolania perkinsi, Oliarus niontivagus, 0. nuhigenus, Oliarus 

 n. sp., ei^ht oi- ten species of r)el])liacidae, four or five species of 

 J assidae. 



OCTOBEH r>Tii.. 1011. 



The seven t_v-seventh regular nieetini^ of the Society was li(>ld 

 in the usual ])lace. 



KNTOMO L( )GI(' AT. I'KOGKA M . 



A Newly Introduced Wasp (Odynerus.) 



BY W. M, GIFFARD. 



(Specimens exhihited.) 



A few weeks ai>o whilst in my garden at Makiki I observed 

 what appeared to me to be a peculiar species of wasp flying 

 rapidly over certain low-growing trees. The lateness of the day 

 prevented more than a casual observation but on the following 

 morning I watched for its reajipea ranee. The weather being 

 sunny and with little wind every opportunity was afforded for 

 the occasion with the result that several individuals were ob- 

 served and a few captured. These all proved to be males of a 

 species of Odynervs which I had never before seen in the Terri- 

 tory and whicli certainly did not belong to our indigenous or 

 endemic Aculeate fauna. For a few days I (continued without 

 success my search for female specimens meanwhile securing a 

 sufficient number of males to form a series of that sex. With 

 the object of capturing f(>males I finally decided to closely ob- 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 5, July, 1913. 



