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Mr. GifFard also exhibited a niunber of parasitic Hymenop- 

 tera of the Family Encyrtidae, snb-family Eupehninae, which 

 had been bred by him, on several occasions during the past two 

 years, from hollow twigs of native trees containing the nests of 

 species of Nesoprosopis (Acwleate Hymen.). There has as yet 

 been no opportunity to name the Encyrtids exhibited. The 

 exhibit included portions of the twigs above referred to, show- 

 ing not only the remnants of the nests of the l!^esoprosopis but 

 also in two instances remnants of the nests of species of Ody- 

 nerus. 



Mr. Kotinsky related his recent observation of vast numbers 

 of caterpillars in a grain warehouse in Honolulu. These cater- 

 pillars were later definitely determined to be Ephestiodes plves- 

 centella Ragonot. He was certain of the identification because 

 it corresponds in all details with Meyrick's description in the 

 Fauna, Avho claims to have compared his specimens with Rago- 

 not's types. He stated that to his knowledge the insect is not 

 recorded in economic literature. It is commonly found in 

 grain and meal coming from the Pacific Coast, where it is 

 doubtless a common granary and mill pest. 'E,pliestia IcueJi- 

 niella on the other hand, which was reported as a feed pest 

 from California and elsewhere on the mainland, does not seem 

 to occur here. It would appear from these facts that E. gilves- 

 centella has probably been mistaken for the Mediterranean 

 flour moth. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited a collection of Hawaiian Phycitidae, 

 and made some remarks on their habits and life history. 



PAPER READ. 



Some Remarkable Australian Hymenopfera.. 



BY R. C. L. PERKINS. 



In this paper I have dealt with only a small number of species 

 of Australian Hymenoptera, but all of them are of extreme 

 interest, either because they are altogether new generically, or 

 are new to Australia as genera, or they are remarkable for 

 peculiarity of habits or for other special reasons. 



I will first briefly review some of the most interesting species. 



Of the bees I have here described two new genera, one of 

 which, Palaeorhiza, is evidently represented by many species 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 1, Oct., 1908. 



