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  some 
  carpenter 
  bees 
  from 
  India 
  liad 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  alxlominal 
  seg- 
  

   ment 
  a 
  chamljer, 
  wliicb 
  was 
  always 
  full 
  of 
  Acari 
  ; 
  tbe 
  females 
  

   alone 
  possess 
  this 
  acarid 
  cavity. 
  The 
  relation 
  of 
  these 
  acarids 
  to 
  

   their 
  hosts 
  is 
  uncertain, 
  Mr. 
  Perkins 
  believini^ 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  inju- 
  

   rious. 
  A 
  Mexican 
  wasp 
  (Odyiicriis), 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  also 
  exam- 
  

   ined, 
  had 
  a 
  special 
  Acarid 
  chamber 
  formed 
  by 
  a 
  modification 
  of 
  

   the 
  second 
  abdominal 
  segment, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  overlapped 
  by 
  the 
  first 
  ; 
  

   he 
  exhibited 
  also 
  an 
  Australian 
  wasp 
  in 
  which 
  this 
  cavity 
  was 
  

   located 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  face 
  of 
  the 
  propodeum. 
  

  

  SEPTEMBER 
  14th. 
  1905. 
  

  

  The 
  ninth 
  regular 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  usual 
  

   place, 
  Mr. 
  Van 
  Dine 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  Exhibitions 
  and 
  Notes. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Kotinsky 
  remarked 
  that 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  compilers 
  of 
  lists, 
  etc., 
  

   of 
  groups 
  of 
  insects 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  commendable, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  

   workers 
  in 
  those 
  groups 
  very 
  useful, 
  but 
  like 
  everyone 
  else 
  they 
  

   are 
  likely 
  to 
  commit 
  errors. 
  Among 
  the 
  most 
  regrettable 
  of 
  

   these 
  is 
  the 
  tendency 
  to 
  alter 
  names 
  without 
  apparently 
  satisfac- 
  

   tory 
  reason 
  or 
  authority. 
  To 
  illustrate, 
  he 
  cited 
  the 
  following 
  

   instance 
  : 
  In 
  the 
  Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Institute 
  

   Vol. 
  XXVII 
  p. 
  46, 
  Maskell 
  reports 
  Alytilaspis 
  pallida 
  var. 
  (?) 
  

   "on 
  Podocarpus, 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands 
  from 
  Japan." 
  In 
  the 
  Ameri- 
  

   can 
  Naturalist 
  Vol. 
  XXXI 
  p. 
  704 
  (1897), 
  Cockerell, 
  referring 
  

   to 
  this 
  variety, 
  names 
  it 
  maskcUi. 
  In 
  compiling 
  his 
  list 
  of 
  Coccidae 
  

   for 
  the 
  Fauna 
  Hawaiiensis 
  in 
  1902, 
  Kirkaldy 
  disregards 
  Mas- 
  

   kell's 
  "'variety 
  (?)", 
  apparently 
  overlooks 
  Cockerell's 
  note 
  upon 
  

   this 
  variety, 
  and 
  reports 
  "Lepidosaphes 
  pallida 
  on 
  Podocarpus, 
  

   Hawaiian 
  Islands 
  from 
  Japan." 
  As 
  a 
  result, 
  Mrs. 
  Fernald 
  in 
  her 
  

   "Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coccidae" 
  credits 
  "Podocarpus, 
  Hawaiian 
  Isl- 
  

   ands 
  from 
  Japan" 
  with 
  both 
  L. 
  pallida 
  and 
  its 
  variety 
  maskclli. 
  

   the 
  one 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  Kirkaldy, 
  the 
  other 
  of 
  Maskell. 
  While 
  

   L. 
  pallida 
  probably 
  exists 
  upon 
  these 
  islands, 
  Kirkaldy 
  apparently 
  

   had 
  no 
  authority 
  for 
  his 
  record. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Kotinsky 
  also 
  stated 
  that 
  through 
  the 
  courtesy 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Rus- 
  

   sel, 
  who 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  Japan, 
  a 
  colony 
  of 
  Chilocorus 
  siniilts 
  Rossi 
  

   was 
  received 
  from 
  that 
  country, 
  three 
  adults 
  and 
  five 
  pupae 
  arriv- 
  

   ing 
  in 
  good 
  condition. 
  The 
  imagines 
  issued 
  from 
  these 
  pupae 
  

   shortlv 
  after 
  arrival 
  and 
  subsequently 
  the 
  colony 
  was 
  reduced 
  to 
  

  

  