17 

 OCTOBER !hii, 1913. 



The postponed niiietv-eiolitli re,i>n]ar iiieeting' of the Society 

 was held in the nsual place, Vice-President Gitfard in the chair. 

 Other members present: Messrs. Bridwell, Fnllaway, Tiling- 

 worth, Osborn, Pemberton, Swezey and Warren. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and ai)p roved. 



Mr. IT. T. Osl)oni was elected to active mcudjership in the 

 Society. 



Mr. Fnllaway reported finding the small ant, Flagiolepis 

 exigua, spread all through JMakiki and on the lower slope of 

 Tantalus. Tt was very abundant at the Government Nursery, 

 often getting into the ant-proof insectary. This ant was first 

 recorded by Mr. Ehrhorn in January, 1912. 



Mr. Pemberton said that he had observed the same ant 

 abundant* lately in Dr. Back's office on King street. 



Mr. Bl-idwell related that a process called "sweating" takes 

 place in all Dipterous pupae which have come under his obser- 

 vation in breeding fruitfi,y and hornfiy parasites. He had 

 noticed, hoAvever, a watery liquid exuding from the anus of a 

 freshly formed puparium of a Sarcophaga, and that the freshly 

 formed puparium of Volucella obesa exudes a whitish liquid 

 from the anus. From these observations he inferred that the 

 "sweating" was of a similar nature, occurring only when pupa- 

 ria v^^ere freshly formed. 



Mr. Fnllaway, in discussing this, stated that at first it was 

 thought that this "sweating", or abundance of moisture tliat 

 occurred when they had puparia in a mass, was an accumula- 

 tion condensed from the air. 



]\[r. Bridwell called attention to the pi-eseut abundance of 

 the introduced wasp, Trypoxylon hicolor. Other members cor- 

 roborated in this and Mr. Giffard related having first collected 

 it as early as 1905. 



