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The resignation of Mr. C. F. Eekart, who had moved to 

 Olaa, Hawaii, was presented and accepted. 



The Secretary announced that Number 5 of Volume II of 

 The Proceedings had been received from the printers and copies 

 sent out in the mails : also that an index was being prepai-ed for 

 Volume II. 



IVOTES A^B EXIIIBITIOXS 



Mr. Swezej exhibited a male Pliisia pterylota caught by 

 Mr. Giffard at his bungalow, at Kilauea, Hawaii, July, 1913, 

 which now makes a pair that Mr. Giffard has collected of this 

 beautiful rare moth. The sexes are not exactly alike in color, 

 the male is more ochrcous suffused with vermilion red, while 

 the female is more fuscous suffused with vennillion red. 



Mr. Swezey also exhibited another moth caught by Mr. Gif- 

 fard in the same place and which he considers a new species 

 near to Euxoa panoplias. 



Mr. Swezey also exhibited a specimen of the ^lediterranean 

 flour moth which he liad caught in his house in Kaimuki, July 

 29th, the first record of this insect in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Mr. SAvezey further exhibited specimens of a small motli 

 which he had reared from mines in the leaves of a sedge {8cir- 

 pus maritimus) occurring in the Kewalo swamps. It was first 

 noted on May 14th, and again, on July i-ttli. The species had 

 not yet been determined.^" 



Mr. Giffard related the capturing of a FlagWimysiis pcr- 

 h'msi, a beetle that has seldom been taken. It was observed 

 sitting on the bark of a ''naieo" tree, but flew up quickly on 

 being approached. It was fortunately secured by a quick 

 sweep of the net. 



Mr. Bridwell reported having observed a female Stoiiiorliiiin 

 pleuralis deposit an egg-mass in a glass tube. The eggs hatched 

 the next day, and the larvae feeding on the dead adult had 

 become quite large in but three days. Mr. Bridwell also re- 

 ported having reared Hydrotaea from horse manure. 



]\Ir. Swezey mentioned having reared Clirysomyza a-enea 



* Later, specimens were sent to Mr. August Busck at the U. S. 

 National Museum for determination. He pronounced it a new species 

 and named it lidfrachcilid nniiciildtor. — Ed. 



