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slii]) at Bordeaux, July 25tli, 1912; called at Teneriffe on the 

 wax; made investigations in Senegamlna, French Guinea, Gold 

 Coast, Xigei'ia, Kamerun, Congo, and South Angola. At these 

 places he searched for fruitflies and parasites. Found several 

 new species of Ceratitis, and several species of parasites at vari- 

 ous places. He secured his supply of parasites at Nigeria and 

 brought them via Cape Town and Australia, reaching Hono- 

 lulu May 16th with a large supply of adult parasites. His 

 complete report will he finished on his return to Italy, and in 

 due season it will be issued as a Bulletin fi-om the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii. 



Mr. Ehrhorn exhibited a large fly, Ptecticus sj^. which he 

 had reared from decaying substance in the soil of a plant ship- 

 ment from Japan. The fly is related to our Sargus. 



He also exhibited four specimens of a Cryptorhynchid, bred 

 from seeds of Ileritiera littoralis from Manila. 



Also some specimens of a bug collected by Air. Hosmer, 

 April, 1913, at Parker Ranch, Kamuela, Hawaii. ]\Ir. SwCzey 

 had examined the sjiecimens and considered it either a variety 

 of Nysius lirlienicola or a new species of Nysiiis. 



Dr. Back mentioned finding AleyroditJirips fasciapennis on 

 leaves of Morinda, probably feeding on Aleyrodes, and stated 

 that this insect had previously been found onh^ in Barbadoes 

 and Florida. 



Air. Ehrhorn reported finding fifteen specimens of Ulster 

 himaculatus in stable manure where housefly was breeding at 

 the stable of the Board of Agriculture, May 16th and 18th, 

 1913. This is a beetle sent from Europe by Mr. Koehele the 

 latter part of 1909. Xone had yet been taken except a single 

 specimen by Mr. Swezey in December, 1909, at Waialae Dairy. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited a female Plusia pterylota, recently 

 collected by Mr. Giffard at his bungalow, Kilauea, Hawaii. The 

 only previous record of this species is the description in the 

 Fauna Hawaiiensis from a single male taken by Dr. Perkins in 

 1900 or 1901, in S. E. Koolau, Oahu. Mr. Swezey stated, 

 however, that Dr. Perkins had informed him in a letter some 

 uionths ago that some Plusias of his later collecting at Kilauea, 

 aud sent to the British Museum, had been pronounced by 

 Hampson as this si)ecies. ^Iv. Giftard's specimen does not quite 

 agree in coloration with the description of the male, but it is 

 undoubtedly the same species. 



