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8. — The order of proceedings at all meetings shall be as fol- 

 lows: 



a. Roll call of members and submission of proxies. 



b. Reading and approval of minutes. 



c. Reports of officers and committees. 



d. Nomination and election of members. 



e. Unfinished or new business. 



f. Entomological program. 



g. Nomination and election of officers for the ensuing year. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 



President Otto H. Swezey. 



Vice-President D. L. Van Dine. 



Secretary-Treasurer D. B. Kuhns. 



PAPERS read. 

 Generic Synopsis of Hawaiian Macrolepidoptera. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



[Presidential address]. 



In the use of the part "Macrolepidoptera" of the Fauna Ha- 

 waiiensi§, there are excellent tables to assist in the identification 

 of species ; but one finds a lack of generic and family tables. On 

 account of this, I have often found difficulty in determining to 

 what genus a specimen belonged, if it was not closely related 

 to a species or genus with which I was already familiar. ■ Pri- 

 marily for my own convenience I have constructed the follow- 

 ing tables of families and genera. My tables are based on Mey- 

 rick's classification, and are largely adapted from various tables 

 of his, necessarily modified considerably to include only genera 

 existing here, and especially for the new genera which have 

 not before appeared in tables. 



In some cases genera have been split up or rearranged by 

 more recent writers (as for example: Agrotis the species of 

 which have been assigned by Hampson to several different 

 genera) ; in other cases Meyrick has assigned species to differ- 

 ent genera from what other writers have ; but in these tables 

 the genera are used as given by Meyrick in the Fauna, pur- 

 posely that they may be conveniently used in connection with 

 the Fauna. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 2, Sept., 1909. 



