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1891). His wi'itings are not profuse, and are confined almost 

 entirely to periodical reports in which he aimed principally 

 to enlighten his horticultural readers on their insect problems 

 as he viewed them. In Bull. 4, Tech. Ser., Division of En- 

 tomology, U. S. D. A. he published a list of the Coccidae which 

 he found in course of inspection at San Francisco. A number 

 of species and varieties named Crawii may be observed in cata- 

 logs of this family. 



In 1904 he was induced to enter the service of the Hawaiian 

 Board of Agriculture as Superintendent of Entomology and 

 Inspector. This office he filled in the same efficient manner 

 that he had carried on the work in California, proving of great 

 benefit to Hawaii in the exclusion of dangerous insect pests, and 

 resulting in a better quality of fruits and vegetables being 

 shipped here. His devotion to duty had the better of discre- 

 tion, so that when on October 11, 1907, he was overtaken by the 

 serious illness which on June 28, 1908, terminated his life, it 

 was largely the result of over-work. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



Mr. W. M. Giffard exhibited for record a female Horn-tail 

 wood wasp (Family Sincidoie) dark blue in color, which had 

 been taken on Wyllie Street, ISTuuanu Avenue, Oahu. This 

 insect belongs to a family the larvae of which are very destruc- 

 tive to certain trees of temperate climates, particularly firs and 

 pines. The probabilities are that the insect (the species of 

 w^hich Mr. Giffard could not determine) bred out of imported 

 veranda furniture, some of which, covered with close fitting 

 bark, were on the premises where it was caught. It was noticed 

 particularly that a veranda chair of this nature showed a few 

 holes 3-16 in. in diameter from which insects of some kind 

 had emerged. It is not probable that the insect exhibited will 

 breed in this climate as the trees and wood which this family 

 of insects are known to attack elsewhere do not grow here. 



Dr. Wilcox referred to an article he read in which was re- 

 corded the important observation that the larvae of insects 

 working within a plant caught in an extended drought were 

 found capable of transforming starch into water and thus drag 

 out their existence during months of a dry season. 



