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^Ir. Bryan exhibited a Ilippoboseid fly taken from a sea 

 bird at the island Aloku Mann, also a few other insects, one a 

 Sarcophaga whose pnparia were found nnder rocks, their larvae 

 apparently having lived in the abundant accnnnilation of bird 

 droppings close at hand, lie showed numerous photos taken 

 on his recent trip to this island, and reported collecting six spe- 

 cies of plants, ten species of birds, and 112 s])ecies of marine 

 mollusks. 



Mr. Bridwell exhibited specimens and reported on the rear- 

 ing of a Sarcophaga from larvae produced by female Hies 

 caught in the laboratory, a very interesting feature in connec- 

 tion with which was the fact that the larvae made cocoons in 

 the sand in which to pupate. It was an undetermined species, 

 commonly known as the red-tailed Sarcophaga. Mr. Terry had 

 reared it on meat in 1910, as shown by specimens in the cabi- 

 nets of the Experiment Station, H. S. P. A., but the habit of 

 making a cocoon had not been noted. 



Mr. Bridwell also remarked on the abundance of Jlockeria 

 sp. ; and the taking of Chaetospila cl-egans and Cephalonomia 

 hyaHnipeiuiif< in a Chinese store on King street near Kalakaua 

 avenue, being the first record for these two parasites in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. They are supposed to be parasitic on some 

 beetle in stored food products. The former was taken in Guam 

 in 1911 by Mr. Fullaway, and described by him as Spalangia 

 metalUca, but it is now considered the same as the Chaetospila 

 (Cerocephala) elegans described by AVestwood in IST-l. 



Dr. Back exhibited a Kusai lime, or sour orange, showing a 

 batch of eggs of Ceratitis capitata which had been killed by the 

 oil escaping from the cells of the rind during the process of the 

 e egi^ cavity. 



Insects from Palmyra Islands. 



BY OTTO II. SWEZEY. 



The following insects were collected by Messrs. Joseph 

 Rock and Montague Cooke while_ on an excursion to the Pal- 

 myra Islands with Judge H. E. Cooper, the owner of the 

 islands, July 12th to 28tli, 1913. The party was chiefly en- 

 gaged in the collection of the flora and the sea fauna of the 

 islands and the collection of insects was a secondary matter. 

 The small collectiuii, however, is of great interest, as this is the 



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



