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Mr. Bryan exhil)ite(l a llippohoscid Wy taken from a sea 

 bird at the island ^lokn ]Mann, also a few other insects, one a 

 Sarcophaga whose pnparia were found under rocks, tiieir larva(> 

 apparently having lived in the abundant aecuniulation of hird 

 droppings close at hand, lie showed nunierons ])hotos taken 

 on his recent trip to this island, and reported colh'cting six spe- 

 cies of plants, ten species of birds, and 112 sjx'cies of marine 

 mollusks. 



Mr. Bridwell exhibited specimens and reported on the rear- 

 ing of a Sarcophaga from larvae produced by female Hies 

 caught in the laboratory, a very interesting feature in connec- 

 tion with which was the fact that the larvae made cocoons in 

 the sand in which to pupate. It was an undetermined species, 

 commonly known as the red-tailed Sarcophaga. Mr. Terry had 

 reared it on meat in 1910, as shown by specimens in the cabi- 

 nets of the Experiment Station, H. S. P. A., but the habit of 

 making a cocoon had not been noted. 



Mr. Bridwell also remarked on the abundance of Jlockeria 

 sp. ; and the taking of Chaetospila eh'gans and Cepltaloiwmia 

 hyalinipennis in a Chinese store on King street near Kalakaua 

 avenue, being the first record for these two parasites in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. They are supposed to be parasitic on some 

 beetle in stored food products. The former was taken in Guam 

 in 1911 by Mr. Fullaway, and described by him as Spalangla 

 metallica, but it is now considered the same as the Chaetospila 

 (Cerocephala) ehgans described by Westwood in 1874. 



Dr. Back exhibited a Kusai lime, or sour orange, showing a 

 batch of eggs of Ceratitis capitata which had been killed by the 

 oil escaping from the cells of the rind during the process of the 

 formation of the eg,i^ cavity. 



Insects from Palmyra Islands. 



BY OTTO 11. SWEZEY. 



The following insects were collected l)y Messrs. Joseph 

 Rock and Montague Cooke while on an excursion to the Pal- 

 myra Islands with Judge H. E. Cooper, the owner of the 

 islands, July 12th to 28th, 1913. The party was chiefly en- 

 gaged in the collection of the flora and the sea fauna of the 

 islands and the collection of insects was a secondary matter. 

 The small collection, however, is of great interest, as this is the 



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



