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ENT()M()T,()OICAT. NOTKS. 



]\rr. Peiiiberton cxliiMu-d a inici-oscopo slide showing stridii- 

 lating organ of the ant, Plwldole iii('<j<iccj)li(il<i. It is an oval 

 striated area on the anterior ])orti()ii of the tliird dorsal segment 

 of the abdomen, wliieh is i-uhl)ed l»v hairs on the second segment 

 of the ]ietiole when the al)donien is raised and lowered (jnicklv. 

 The stridnlation is not andible in the worker and only with dif- 

 ficnlty in the female. 



Mr. Bridwell exhibited a nest of Trypoxjilnn hlcolor, and 

 a box of Xorth American Trypoxylonidac. 



A Note on "Nesotocus giffardi" Perkins. 



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Seven males and six females of this large endemic Cnrcnli- 

 onid were taken by Mr. Montagne Cooke from a Chclrodendron 

 tree along the Castle Trail on the side of Kanmnahona not far 

 above the Rest Honse, at 7 a. m., Jannary -tth, 1914. More 

 specimens were present bnt escaped being captnred. 



Very few specimens of this species have previonsly been ob- 

 tained. I collected a single male in flight on the top of Ka- 

 nmnahona, Jnly 12th, 1908. There is l)nt one specimen in the 

 Bishop Mnsenm, collected by Dr. Perkins on Tantalns. 



The species is described by Dr. Perkins in Fanna Hawaii- 

 onsis, III, Part VI, p. 654, 1910, the male only being known. 



Three other species of this endemic genns are known: one 

 on Kanai, one on Mani and one on Mani and Hawaii. Dr. Per- 

 kins says that all of them live in the wood of the Chcirodendron 

 tree. 



MAPCIT 5tii, 1914. 



The one hnndred-third regular meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Library of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 President Swezey in the chair. Other members present : Messrs. 

 Bridwell, Ehrhorn, Tllingworth, Osboru. Pemlierton and War- 

 ren. 



]\linntes of previous meeting read and approved. 



The Secretary reported that the publications l-)elonging to 

 the Society had been assembled in the entomologist's offir"^ at 



