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(imported from California and now growing at the Waialae 

 Dairy), wliicli was so heavily infested with the scale, Diaspis 

 echinocadi, as to he almost entirely covered. He reported this 

 scale to be very abundant in spots on the plants and in some 

 cases completely absent from adjoining plants. The scale was 

 well parasitized by a species of Apheliniis, the parasite attacking 

 both male and female scales. Mr. Ehrhorn estimated that 75% 

 of the scales were parasitized. 



Mr. Ehrhorn further exhibited a thread-like worm, three 

 inches long when alive, which had been working in pine seed- 

 lings from Mani. 



Mr. Swezey reported the capture of a number of winged 

 termites at night as they were swarming at lights on Hotel and 

 Xuuanu streets. As they differed from the two well-known 

 termites, he considered that they were the winged forms of the 

 Coptotermcs sp. which had been found so abundantly working 

 in a fallen flag pole and in the bandstand at the Capitol grounds 

 early in the present year. Xo winged individuals had been 

 found in those colonies. 



Mr. Swezey also reported that the female Chrysomelid, 

 Diachus auratus whose egg-laying habits were reported on by 

 him at the previous meeting, had now laid 1(34 eggs in the period 

 of over two months which she had been in captivity. Dr. Van 

 Dyke, who had dtermined the species, reports it as common 

 thruout the United States. 



Mr. Pendierton mentidued the rearing of four specimens of 

 Opius JiumUis from about !2,()(H) fruits of Biiinelia sp., heavily 

 infested with fniitfly larvae. 



Dr. Back showed that so far this rejiresented but a small per- 

 centage of larvae parasitized, as about ;j,000 adult fruitflies 

 issued from this same lot of fruit. 



New Hawaiian Microlepidoptera. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



The following five species have recently been named by 

 Mr. August Busck i'vom specimens that I sent him for determi- 

 nation and descri])ti(»n if new.* 



Phitijptilia laiifdiKi. This is the plume moth in the flower 

 clusters and fruit of lantana. It was introduced from Mexico 

 by Mr. Koebele about twelve vears ago. 



* Published in Insecutor Inscitiae i\Ientruus, II, pp. 103-107, 1914. 



