PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Hawaiian Entomological Society 



Vol. III. Xo. i^. Jax. 1914-ArKii. 1915. JUNE 1015. 



JANUARY Stit, 1914. 



The one liniidred-first regular meeting of the Society Avas 

 held in the nsnal place, President Swezey in the chair. Other 

 menihers ]n-escnt : Messrs. Eridwell, Ehrhorn, Oshorn, Peniher- 

 ton, and Warren. 



]\rinntes of the previons meeting read and approved. 



The president read a letter recently received from Mr. Mnir, 

 who is now in Formosa engaged in the search of ]^arasites on the 

 Anomala beetle. An interesting account was given of his work 

 there. 



On motion it was decided that the Lil)rary of the Society be 

 assembled and retained at the Board of Agriculture and For- 

 estry. 



E.VTOVrOLOGICAL ]S70TES, 



^Ir. Ehrhorn reported the finding of a colony of the ter- 

 mite Copfof-crmes sp. in the Douglass fir timber supporting the 

 band stand in the Capitol grounds. The timbers had been large- 

 ly destroyed hy them. Several of the timbers contained a cone 

 al)0ut 18 inches long and 8 inches in diameter, composed of a 

 composite material manufactured by the termites from the wood. 

 One of these cones was being kept to secure adults if possible 

 from the nymphs which were now present. Some timbers were 

 sound while others had been completely destroyed. The same 

 l)and stand had been repaired five years previously when it had 

 been similarly affected, apparently by the same inset tho its 

 identity was not made known at that time. In the present re- 

 l)uilding of the stand creosoted timbers have been used. This 

 termite is the same species that ^Fr. Swezey reported at the pre- 

 vious meeting as doing consideralile damage in the flooi- timbers 

 of the Kamehameha Chapel, and the work of which liad not pre- 



