﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  

  

  or 
  THE 
  

  

  Hawaiian 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  

  

  JANUARY 
  4th, 
  1906. 
  

  

  The 
  twelfth 
  regular, 
  and 
  first 
  annual, 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  

   was 
  presided 
  over 
  by 
  Mr, 
  Craw. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Kotinsky 
  read 
  his 
  reports 
  as 
  Secretary-Treasurer. 
  Dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  eleven 
  meetings 
  held 
  by 
  the 
  Society 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  its 
  

   first 
  year, 
  there 
  was 
  an 
  average 
  attendance 
  of 
  seven 
  and 
  one-half. 
  

   There 
  was 
  a 
  balance 
  of 
  sixty-seven 
  dollars 
  and 
  eighteen 
  cents 
  

   ($67.18), 
  plus 
  an 
  accrued 
  interest 
  of 
  two 
  dollars 
  and 
  eighty-two 
  

   cents, 
  ($2.82), 
  making 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  seventy 
  dollars 
  ($70.00). 
  

  

  Notes 
  and 
  Exhibitions. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  O. 
  H. 
  Swezey 
  exhibited 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Rhyparobia 
  

   maderae 
  (Fabricius), 
  a 
  large 
  cockroach 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  

   Islands, 
  and 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  notes: 
  

  

  An 
  adult 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  large 
  roach 
  was 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  

   evening 
  of 
  December 
  3d, 
  1905, 
  at 
  Pahala, 
  Hawaii. 
  It 
  was 
  in 
  

   the 
  house 
  of 
  the 
  manager 
  of 
  the 
  plantation, 
  and 
  was 
  captured 
  as 
  

   it 
  ran 
  across 
  the 
  sitting 
  room 
  floor. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  is 
  not 
  mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  "Orthoptera," 
  of 
  the 
  

   "Fauna 
  Hawaiiensis" 
  (1899), 
  nor 
  have 
  I 
  found 
  any 
  other 
  

   Hawaiian 
  record. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  Madeira 
  and 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  Africa, 
  and 
  

   was 
  described 
  by 
  Fabricius 
  as 
  Blatta 
  maderae, 
  in 
  1781. 
  In 
  1838, 
  

   Burmeister 
  placed 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  Panchlora, 
  and 
  in 
  1892, 
  Krauss 
  

   created 
  the 
  genus 
  Rhyparobia 
  and 
  assigned 
  this 
  species 
  to 
  it. 
  By 
  

   Kirby's 
  "Catalogue 
  of 
  Orthoptera" 
  (1904), 
  there 
  are 
  eight 
  

   species 
  of 
  Rhyparobia, 
  all 
  African. 
  

  

  R. 
  maderae 
  has 
  become 
  cosmopolitan, 
  being 
  carried 
  by 
  com- 
  

   merce. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  the 
  Madeira 
  and 
  Canary 
  

   Islands; 
  Senegal, 
  Africa; 
  Cuba; 
  Hayti; 
  Brazil; 
  Java; 
  Philippines; 
  

   and 
  Great 
  Britain. 
  It 
  is 
  rare 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  country, 
  an 
  occasional 
  

  

  