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  JULY 
  5th, 
  1907. 
  

  

  The 
  thirtieth 
  regular 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  was 
  held 
  in 
  the 
  

   Entomological 
  Laboratory 
  of 
  the 
  H. 
  S. 
  P. 
  A. 
  Experiment 
  Station, 
  

   Mr. 
  Swezey 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Member 
  elected: 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  W. 
  C. 
  Deering. 
  

  

  NOTES 
  AND 
  EXHIBITIONS. 
  

  

  Bro. 
  Matthias 
  exhibited 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  Conocephalid 
  

   collected 
  by 
  himself 
  in 
  rushes 
  near 
  a 
  pool 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Wai- 
  

   luku, 
  Maui, 
  some 
  twenty 
  years 
  ago. 
  The 
  species, 
  undoubtedly 
  

   introduced, 
  is 
  not 
  recorded 
  in 
  the 
  "Fauna 
  Hawaiiensis," 
  and 
  

   has 
  not 
  been 
  collected 
  by 
  anyone 
  since. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Kotinsky 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  extract 
  from 
  a 
  letter 
  recently 
  

   received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  L. 
  Distant: 
  "In 
  reply 
  to 
  yours 
  of 
  the 
  

   7th 
  of 
  May, 
  I 
  did 
  examine 
  Teleonemia 
  scrupulosa 
  Stal, 
  before 
  

   describing 
  T. 
  lantanae. 
  The 
  British 
  Museum 
  possesses 
  a 
  long 
  

   series 
  of 
  Stal's 
  species 
  identified 
  by 
  Champion, 
  after 
  comparison 
  

   with 
  Stal's 
  type 
  or 
  cotype. 
  T. 
  layitaiiae 
  is 
  a 
  more 
  elongate 
  species 
  

   differing 
  principally 
  by 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area 
  which 
  is 
  

   both 
  more 
  elongate 
  and 
  narrower 
  than 
  in 
  scrupulosa, 
  in 
  other 
  

   words 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  hemelytra 
  is 
  much 
  less 
  am- 
  

   pliated, 
  rounded 
  and 
  sinuate." 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Swezey 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  black 
  Cryptor- 
  

   hynchine 
  weevil 
  whose 
  larvae 
  bore 
  in 
  stems 
  of 
  Orchids 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   stipes 
  of 
  ferns. 
  The 
  specimens 
  had 
  been 
  received 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  

   previous 
  from 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  D. 
  Tenney, 
  who 
  had 
  in 
  turn 
  received 
  them 
  

   from 
  Mrs. 
  Agnes 
  Walker, 
  Nuuanu 
  Avenue, 
  Honolulu. 
  Mrs. 
  

   Walker 
  reported 
  them 
  very 
  abundant 
  among 
  her 
  ferns, 
  coming 
  up 
  

   from 
  the 
  soil 
  when 
  she 
  watered 
  the 
  ferns. 
  Mr. 
  Tenney 
  has 
  

   found 
  them 
  in 
  stems 
  and 
  also 
  in 
  fleshy 
  roots 
  of 
  Orchids 
  in 
  his 
  

   orchid-house. 
  He 
  presumes 
  that 
  this 
  weevil 
  has 
  been 
  introduced 
  

   in 
  Orchids 
  from 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Islands, 
  probably 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  

   ago. 
  It 
  was 
  two 
  years 
  ago 
  that 
  he 
  called 
  Dr. 
  Perkins' 
  attention 
  

   to 
  them 
  in 
  his 
  orchid-house. 
  Mr. 
  Swezey 
  reared 
  them 
  quite 
  

   abundantly 
  from 
  the 
  stipes 
  of 
  a 
  fern 
  ( 
  Sadleria 
  cyaiheoides) 
  , 
  grow- 
  

   ing 
  along 
  the 
  path 
  on 
  Pacific 
  Heights 
  Ridge, 
  back 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  

   forest, 
  in 
  May, 
  1905. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Swezey 
  also 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  Tachinid 
  fly 
  

   ( 
  Chaetogaedia 
  vionticola 
  Bigot), 
  with 
  the 
  following 
  note: 
  "I 
  

   recently 
  reared 
  quite 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  these 
  Tachinids 
  from 
  pupae 
  of 
  

  

  April, 
  1908 
  

  

  