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 NOVEMBER Otii, 1913. 



The ninetv-nintli regular session of the Society was held 

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

 members present: Messrs. Bridwell, Illingworth, Pemberton, 

 Swezey and Warren. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL PROGRAM. 



Mr. Bridwell reported having swept from grass under guava 

 bushes at Mr. Gartlej's in Nuuanu Valley, recently, a small 

 Curculionid hitherto unknown in the Islands. He also reported 

 the finding of covered runs of the ant Pheidole megacepJiala on 

 trunks of coffee trees, and also more or less of a similar cover- 

 ing amongst the coffee berries, and asked whether other of the 

 ants here were known to make similar runs. Other members 

 had observed at times these covered runs of Pheidole, but no 

 one had ever observed any of our other species of ants making 

 these runs. 



Mr. Bridwell exhibited specimens of a Ponerid ant taken 

 by Mr. Giffard that day at Moanalua, probably Ponera Jcala- 

 kauae. 



Mr. Illingworth reported having observed Pheidole mega- 

 cephala destroying large numbers of the maggots of the house 

 fly in manure piles, or as they were crawling out to enter the 

 ground to pupate ; they were also taking the eggs as they were 

 laid. This w^as followed by a general discussion of the preva- 

 lent conditions under which the house fly and the horn fly are 

 breeding, and their parasites, predators, etc. 



Mr, Illingworth exhibited a large collection of various orders 

 of insects collected by him while in Fiji during the summer 

 months. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited eggs of Prognathogryllus alatus in 

 midrib of a leaf of Labordea membranacea, found on Kaumu- 

 ohona Ridge, Oct. 26, 1913. He also exhibited ten specimens 

 of Plagithfuysus darwinianus collected by him on a fallen Sa- 

 pindus tree in a ''kipuka", Kilauea, Hawaii, Sept. 28, 1913. 

 This beetle is supposed to be associated only with the mamani 

 tree, manv of which occurred in the vicinity. 



