PROCEEDINGS 



OF TIIK 



Hawaiian Entomological Society 



Vol. Ill, No. 4. For the YexYR 191(5. May, 1917. 



JAXrAKY 6tii, 1910. 



The one liiiiKlrcd twentj-fourtli meeting of the Society wus 

 hold in the usual place, President Illing-worth in the chair. 

 Otlier luemhers ]n-esent : Messrs. RridwcU, Bryan, Ehrhorn, 

 ]\rant, P('ni])ert(>ii, and Swezey. 



MiiMilcs of pi'cvions meeting read and ai)])r()ved. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITIONS. 



^Ir. ]>rid\vell exhibited specimens and rehited interesting 

 ohservations made on a number of rare, strange, beautiful, or 

 otherwise interesting insects from Australia and Africa: 



Sti(;inodera. — A box of specimens exhibited, containing 

 many spcx'ies of this Bnprestid genus. About 300 species of 

 the genus are known in Australia, of great variety as regards 

 size, coloration, etc. About 70 species are found in the 

 vicinity of Sydney, Ix'iug usually taken on flowei-s, ]nirticularly 

 L('j)tospcrininn and A ii(joj)]iora. The genus is under revision 

 by Mr. 11. J. Carter of Sydney and will be split up, several 

 sections deserving separation. Five species of the characteristic 

 African genus Jiilodis and a specimen of Ci/i-ia iinpenalis 

 from Svdnev where it is connnonly found on the foliage of 

 Bdulrsui. 



Psi/cJi apsis iieii'manl. — A l)re(l specimen of this rare moth- 

 like Xeuropteron was exhibited, rsi/cliopsis has been included 

 in the Ilemerobiidae, but ^Ir. li. J. Tillyard of Sydney, whose 

 remarkable work in ^'eui-optera and Odonata is (d(>aring up 

 the affinities of many of the groups, considers the genus as 

 formim;- a disricnt archaic family. He has been the first to 



