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ship at Bordeaux, July 25tb, 1912; called at Teneriflfe on the 

 M-ay ; made investigations in Senegambia, French Gninea, Gold 

 Coast, Nigeria, Kamernn, Congo, and South Angola. At these 

 places he searched for frnitflies and parasites. Found several 

 new species of Ceratifis, and several species of parasites at vari- 

 ous places. He secured his supply of parasites at ISTigeria and 

 brought them via Cape Town and Australia, reaching Hono- 

 lulu May 16th with a large supply of adult parasites. His 

 complete report will be finished on his return to Italy, and in 

 due season it will be issued as a Bulletin from the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii. 



Mr. Ehrhorn exhibited a large fly," Ptedicus sp. which he 

 had reared from decaying substance in the soil of a plant ship- 

 ment from Japan. The fly is related to our Sargus. 



He also exhibited four specimens of a CryptorhjTichid, bred 

 from seeds of Heritiera littoralis from Manila. 



Also some specimens of a bug collected by Mr. Hosmer, 

 April, 1913, at Parker Kanch, Kamuela, Hawaii. Mr. Swezey 

 had examined the specimens and considered it either a variety 

 of Nysius lichenicola or a new species of Nysius. 



Dr. Back mentioned finding Aleyrodithrips fasciapennis on 

 leaves of Morinda, probably feeding on Aleyrodes, and stated 

 that this insect had previously been found only in Barbadoes 

 and Florida. 



Mr. Ehrhorn reported finding fifteen specimens of Hister 

 himaculatus in stable manure where housefly was breeding at 

 the stable of the Board of Agriculture, May 16th and 18th, 

 1913. This is a beetle sent from Europe by Mr. Koebele the 

 latter part of 1909. None had yet been taken except a single 

 specimen by Mr. Swezey in December, 1909, at Waialae Dairy. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited a female Plusia pterylota, recently 

 collected by Mr. Giffard at his bungalow, Kilauea, Hawaii. The 

 only previous record of this species is the description in the 

 Fauna Hawaiiensis from a single male taken by Dr. Perkins in 

 1900 or 1901, in S. E. Koolau, Oahu. Mr. Swezey stated, 

 however, that Dr. Perkins had informed him in a letter some 

 months ago that some Plusias of his later collecting at Kilauea, 

 and sent to the British Museum, had been pronounced by 

 Hampson as this species. Mr. Giffard's specimen does not quite 

 agree in coloration with the description of the male, but it is 

 undoulitedly the same species. 



