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 Is^OVEMBER 4th, 1915. 



The one-hundred -twenty-second regular meeting of the So- - 

 cioty was held in the usual place, President Ehrhorn in the 

 chnir. Other niemhers present: Messrs. Back, Illingworth, 

 Kahns, Peniberton, Potter and Swezey. 



In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. H. T. Osborn, who 

 would be away from Honolulu for the remainder of the year, 

 Mr. O. H. Swezey was elected to serve as Secretary-Treasurer 

 for the rest of the year. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



ENTOAIOLOGICAL PKOGRAM. 



Mr. Ehrhorn, who had recently returned from a vacation 

 trip to California, remarked on conditions in the valley re- 

 gions, it being the dry time of the year was very unfavorable 

 for insect collecting. He also gave some account of his visit 

 to the State insectary at Sacramento, and to the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. At the latter place he 

 had noted an interesting collection of insects in the School 

 Exhibit from Bolivia, and in the exhibit of the Eield Museum 

 there were valuable life history exhibits. 



Epyris sp. — Mr. Swezey exhibited a specimen of a large 

 Bethylid which he had caught on a cane leaf at the Experi- 

 ment Station, October 27th. It is apparently this genus, and 

 is a foreign insect not previously observed here. It is much 

 larger than any of the native Bethylids. 



Andriciis qu-ercu.s-caUfornicus (Bass.). — Mr. Swezey ex- 

 hibited a large gall collected from the Oregon oak at Eugene, 

 Oregon, in July, 1915, and specimens of the Cynipid causing 

 it. The specimens were obtained by cutting open the gall, in 

 wliich were seven cells or chambers near the center, five of 

 which contained each a single Cynipid, while the other two 

 coiitained ]iarasites, Tetrasticlius standfoi'dlensis Ful., 16 and 

 17 respectively in each cell. 



Synenjus sp. — Specimens of what appeared to he a new 

 species of this genus of Cynipidae were exhi])ited by Mr. Swe- 

 zey. They were reared from small spherical galls on the 

 sterile catkins of Castinopsis chrysophylla, collected on the 

 s'lmmit of Mt. Tamalpais, California, August 7th, 1915. 



