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Described from •> S 3 , '> 9 9, and 1 ii_\iii|ili, Wailiipi', Muy 

 0, 1!)17 (J. ('. IJridwell and O. 11. Swezey) ; and 15 6 $, 

 l-t 9 9 , and 12 nym])lis, collected on h^nphorbia rclaslroidcs, 

 Xin, Feb. 10, liUS ( O. IT. Swezey and P. H. Tiniberlake). 

 These localities are adjacent in the sontlieastern Koolau Monn- 

 taius, Oahn. Hawaiian Islands. 



Tvpe £ and 9 and jiaratypes iu the Bernice Panalii 

 Bishop Alusenni, parat_v})es in the collectidn of the Hawaiian 

 Sngar Planters' Experiment Station, and in the private col- 

 lections of J. C. Bridwell, O. II. Swezey, and P. II. Tind)er- 

 lake. 



Xained in a]ipreciation of ]\Ir. O. II. Swezey, who first dis- 

 covered and described the genns, for his extensive and snccess- 

 fnl work in advancing onr knowledge of the biology of Ha- 

 waiian insects. 



XoTE. — The writer had hoped to have the species de- 

 scribed by Mr. Frederick JNInir, bnt his departnro to take np 

 war service in England prevented this and in defanlt of some 

 one more familiar with the gronp lias described the species 

 to ])laee on record this interesting addition to onr fanna. 



JULY Gth. 1017. 



The one hnndred forty-second meeting of the Society was 

 held in the nsnal place, Vice-President Pend)erton in the chair. 

 Other members present: Messrs. Bridwell, Ehrhorn, Newell, 

 Osborn and Swezey. 



^linntes of previons meeting read and a]){)roved. 



EXTO^rOLOGICAL PKOGRA?*!. 



]\Ir. Ehrhorn discnssed the confnsion which is apt to occnr 

 regarding the injnry to plants. For example: he had noticed 

 Afi'ican daisies attacked by some kind of blight, the canse of 



