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been observed before. Mr. Swezey bad found these eggs on 

 Mt. Olympus, Feb. 11, 1912, in two leaves of a native tree, 

 Lahordea memhranacea, at an elevation of about five feet from 

 the ground. Thev were placed in the midrib of the leaf, nearly 

 regularly, about 10mm. apart. Apparently the female cricket 

 had bitten off a little of the upper surface of the midrib, then 

 inserted the egg at this place, directing it downward, the end 

 being left exposed. The egg is cylindrical in shape, curved a 

 little near the outer end, the latter being truncate where exposed ; 

 whitish, 6mm. long and nearly 1mm. in diameter. 



Mr. Swezey reported Lineodes ochrea as a pest on egg-plant. 

 having received caterpillars that were feeding on this plant at 

 Kilauea, Kauai, from which he had reared the moth. The habits 

 of the 2 species of Lineodes in the Hawaiian Islands had not 

 previously been known. Mr. Swezey said that the only record 

 of the habits of any species of the genus that he could find was 

 that of two species in the Southern States, one feeding on Cap- 

 sicum and the other on species of Solanum, both related to the 

 egg-plant. Dr. Perkins thought that it was very likely that the 

 Hawaiian species were introduced, prol~)ably from America. 



Mr. Swezey also reported finding the eggs of Caryoborus 

 gonagra on some bananas. Examination had shown that they 

 had hatched and that the young larvae had eaten a little into 

 the rind of the fruit and then died, as though poisoned by some 

 chemical substance in the juice. 



APRIL 4x11, 1912. 



The eighty-third regular meeting of the society was held 

 in the usual place. 



EA'TOMOLOGICAL PROGRAM. 



Synoptic List of Ants Reported from the Haw^aiian Islands. 



BY MISS LOUISE GULICK. 



(Specimens of ants were exhibited, and a presentation of synonoray 

 with references in literature to tlie descriptions of all the species of 

 ants known in Hawaii, with remarks on the same; also a key for iden- 

 tification of species. In the list 21 species were included as known to 

 occur without a doubt, and a few others that have been reported, but 

 not at present to be found in any collection in Honolulu. See Appen- 

 dix.) 



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



