OahiT, March 30tli, lOlo. Besi(l(\s hiiusolf, in the ])art.v were 

 Messrs. Swezcv, Knhiis, Wilder, and Messrs. Willet and lUiiley, 

 two men who liad recently made a visit to the U. S. Bird lleser- 

 vation at Laysan and Midway Islands. The party had spent 

 the niii'ht at Mr. Goodale's mountain house, eiiiht miles up the 

 gulch, and were able to have a long day in the forest a litth* 

 farther u]) the gulch, where fairly good collecting was found 

 and a number of interesting captures were made. 



]\Ir. Swezey exhibited some of the results of his collecting 

 on the trip, among them being a new species of Eiipchiviis with 

 an extremely long ovipositor, and a new Psyllid. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited specimens and ])resented the follow- 

 ine- list of insects reared from Mauienie grass: 



Insects Reared from Manienie Grass, 



BY OTTO H. SWP:ZEY. 



On .March Sth a small (piantity of grass cut by the lawn- 

 mower on my la\ni in Kaimuki was placed in a large battery 

 jar and the following insects have l)een collected therefrom as 

 they appeared in the upper part of the jar, during a period of 

 about three weeks: 



17 Isoso)ii(i sp. Its larvae fed in the grass stems. 

 4 Eupehniis s]>. A wingless species, parasitic on the Ixo- 

 soma. 

 2() Encvrtids. An undetermined species. Habits not 



known. 

 10 Advlcncyriiis odonaspkJis. Parasitic on a Coccid on the 

 grass. 



J'crissuptcnis sp. Four of them wingless. Probably 



])arasitic on a mealybug on the grass. 

 4 Pulynema rcdiirioJi. Parasitic on eggs of Red ii rial ii.'i. 

 8 Cephalo)i()iiil(i s]). A peculiar Bethylid lacking the 



usual wing venation. Habits not kncnvn. 



1 Dryinid. Probably parasitic on a Jassid {l'ln-ijii<»nor- 



plnis lias pes). 

 •2 ('rraphroti (thiionnis. Probably parasitic on the above 



Dryinid. 

 1 J'liri/noDtorphiis Jiospcs. A dassid that feeds in the 



iiTass. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, III, No. 1, September, 1914. 



