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from maii'ii'ots that were verv al)iiH(lant in a maniiro pile at 

 Waialae Dairy. 



]\fr. Warren exhibited a Bnprestid beetle with the follow- 

 ing- note : 



Note on a Buprestid Beetle. 



On flnly 1, lOlo, a s]>ecinien of a Bnprestid was found in 

 the attic of the office bnilding of the Experiment Station. The 

 beetle wdien discovered was completely wrapped in the silk of a 

 spider and lying on a piece of wa-apping paper wdiich had been 

 placed on top of some shelves about two weeks before. Upon 

 removing the silk, which was densely wound around the beetle, 

 it ^vas found that the legs were still flexible, and the specimen 

 could be mounted withont first relaxing it, the elytra showing 

 no brittleness whatever. Even the antennae were very flexible, 

 however one of them was broken oft" in the act of removing the 

 mass of silk around the head. From this it may be inferred 

 then that the beetle mnst have been entrapped and killed by the 

 spider only a very short time before it was discovered. 



So far the specimen has not been identified. The tjuestion 

 natnrally is, Where did it come from ? In trying to trace it 

 down in W. S. Blatchley's table of the Coleoptera of Indiana, 

 it failed to agree with any of the descriptions. It may be, since 

 boxes of all kinds from the Orient have been piled in the attic 

 at various times, and since it takes some of the Buprestid larvae 

 from one to three years to obtain their growth, that this speci- 

 men was transported in wooden boxes from some part of the 

 Orient. 



SEPTEMBER 4tii, 1013. 



The ninety-seventh regular meeting of the Society was held 

 in the usual place, Vice-President Giffard in the chair. Other 

 members present: Messrs. Back, Bridwell, Bryan, Fullaway 

 and Swezey; and Mr. H. T. Osborn, visitor. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



Mr. Swezey proposed the name of Mr. H. T. Osborn for 

 active membership. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, III, No. 1, September, 1914. 



