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elated when Captain Brown of the U. S. revenue cutter' 

 ''Thetis" brought him five specimens which he had secured I 

 on his last trip to the island. It is related to the Laysanij 

 Island canary, and Professor Bryan has described it as Teles- 

 piza ultima. 



Clerada Apicicornis Sucking Blood. (Hemip.). 



BY J. F. ILLINGWOKTir. f;j 



This predaceous bug is commonly found about buildings; 

 and there has been some question as to its feeding habits. 

 Kirkaldy suspected that it fed on Lepisma and small Blattida, 

 and Dr. Perkins saw a specimen feeding on a dead roach. 



These insects, in all stages, are often very common in the 

 piles of dry wood in the shops of the College. I have never 

 found them numerous in the house, but from time to time we 

 find individuals. Upon two occasions we have taken them in 

 the beds ; and, just recently, I caught an adult, full of blood, 

 upon one of the sleeping children. The place bitten was red 

 and resembled a flea-bite. 



Hahlfat: The Fauna Ilawaiiensis gives the distribution of 

 this species: Reunion, Celel)es, Bengal, Cuba, St. Thomas, 

 Venezuela, etc. ; also, a note that it was taken l)y beating 

 dead branches of a species of palm in uKMiutain forests, on 

 Oahu. 



Webbing Clothes Moth Predaceous. 



BY .T. F. ILLINGWOKTir. 



lieceutly the Itrushcs at the College of Hawaii wei'e found 

 to be badly eaten by the webbing clotlies nuith (T'nicoJa hiscl- 

 hella Hummel). The bi'ushes had been purchased a year pre- 

 viously in the East. 



The naked, full-grown larvae were collected and placed 

 in a test-tube, with bits of tissue pa])er, so that they might 

 pupate. Several cocoons with almost-mature ])upae were put 

 iu with them. Having no other food, the larvae dug into these 

 cocoons, during the night, and ate the li\'iug ])upae, l)efore 

 they spun-up themselves. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. Ill, No. 4, May, 1917. 



