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Hawaiian Entomological Society 



Vol. Ill, Is^o. 3. May to December 1915. September 1916. 



]\rAY 6Tir. lOlT). 



The one lunul rod-seventeenth meeting of the Soeiety was 

 held in the nsnal place, President Ehrhorn in the chair. 

 Other members present: ]\ressrs. Back, Bryan, Fnllaway, 

 Illingworth, Mant, Mnir, Osborn, Peniberton, and Swezey. 

 Three students of Professor Illingworth's from the College of 

 Hawaii were present as visitors: A. H. Case, Y. Kutsunai, 

 and TI. E. Starratt. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and ap})roved. 



EN TOMOLOGICAL PROGRAM 



Mr. ]\[uir gave a short summary of a paper he was pre- 

 paring for publication on "A Review of the Native Genera 

 of Hawaiian Delpliaeidae/' which contained quite a nund)er of 

 new species. 



Mr. Swezey stated that this was one of the groups in which 

 he had collected for several years, and that he considered that 

 other groups would yield new species similarly if more thoroly 

 collected. 



^Iv. Fullaway remarked on the very large number of un- 

 described species which he had fomid in looking over material 

 of the genus Sierula, collected by Mr. Swezey, Mr. Giffard, 

 and himself. 



In consideration of some of the subjects touched on by Mr. 

 Aluir above, Mr. Bryan mentioned some evidences of depres- 

 sion and elevation which he had recently been making observa- 

 tions on in the Waianae region. Well drillings in one of the 

 valleys show silt to 1500 feet below sea level, from wliich it 

 is estimated that there has been a subsidence of at least 3000 

 feet since the valley was eroded. Some elevated coral reefs 



