coini)arisoii. Your Xo. 2 ditl'crs from my mrclKinfoln in the 

 following points: its smaller size; the vcrv short 4tli joint of 

 antennae; the g'ron]) of stroni;' hairs between ihe antennae; 

 the longer liairs on the abdomen and the nnieh longer and 

 stronger hairs of the anal ring. In other respects it is \-ery like 

 saccharifoUi. It might be described either as a local variety 

 of saccharifolll or as a new species, according to taste. 



It is cei-tainly not sacdiari of Cockerell, n<»r will il ht cdl- 

 ceolariac of which I have typical examples from Alaskell him- 

 self. 



Yonr No. 3 may very well stand as hromellae (Eonclie), 

 bnt I have no other examples of that species with which to com- 

 pare it. Signoret compares hronieliae with adoniduui, and 

 remarks that the marginal tassels of the former are smaller than 

 those of the latter. If, as I believe, Signoret's adonidum is lon- 

 gispi litis of Targioni, this description will tit in with yonr spec- 

 imens. 1 have written to Knwana to ask for examples of his 

 aimnussae which is not at present repi-esented in my collection. 

 P. calceolariae is a smaller and proi)ortionately more slender 

 species than sacchari Moreover, it has normally eight jointed 

 antennae." 



It is clear that Pseudococcus calceolariae does not occnr in 

 the Hawaiian Islands as far as we know. The tinding of P. 

 hromellae on sngar cane does not astonish me at all, as it is a 

 very general feeder, being fonnd on a great variety of garden 

 plants and on the roots of cannas, and is a serions pest to pine- 

 apples. 



In the discnssion following, j\lr. Swezey stated that in 

 recently giving more attention to the mealybngs on cane, he 

 had observed all three species in the cane fields of Oahn, ]\lani 

 and Hawaii. Usnally saccliari was most abnndant, sometimes 

 saccliarifolii. while hroineliae was nsnally scarce when fonnd. 



NOTES. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited two species of flies that were reared 

 from decaying frnits snch as papaia, tomato, etc., and called 

 attention to an article by H. H. Severin in the December, 1912, 

 nnml)er of the Jonrnal of Economic Entomology, in which it 

 was stated that s])ecimens bred fi-om decaying bananas had 

 been identified by entomologists of the Bureau of Entomology 



