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staff, on his jiarlor table at his house on Prospect street, Hono- 

 lulu. Mr. Ehrhorn suggested that it had probably bred out of 

 imported lumber from the Pacific Coast of the United States. 



Mr. Swezey also exhibited a single winged specimen of a 

 very peculiar ant which he had taken on his desk at the Experi- 

 ment Station, 'Nov. 17, 1913. It had probably flown in at a 

 nearby window. Mr. Bridwell had examined it and traced it to 

 Epitritus, or some other closely related genus to Strumigenys, 

 these being ants with quite peculiar characters. The specimen 

 ^\\\\ be sent to Dr. W. M. Wheeler for positive determination. 



Mr. Swezey further exhibited specimens of Coptotennes sp., 

 a species of termite not hitherto recorded in the Hawaiian Isl- 

 ands, and belonging to a genus several species of which occur 

 in the Orient and in Australia. He had collected his specimens 

 from the floor timbers of the Kamehameha Chapel, Dec. 5th, 

 where they had been doing very destructive work, and had evi- 

 dently been at it for a considerable time. They apparently had 

 gained access to the woodwork by building mud-covered runs 

 up the surface of the stone wall from the ground beneath the 

 floor, a habit not observed in the other two species of termites 

 recorded for Hawaii. This termite is quite distinct from these 

 other species in its smaller size, and in the soldier possessing a 

 round hole in the front of the head above the clypeus, from 

 which it can emit a milky fluid. In the Fauna Hawaiiensis, 

 Dr. Perkins stated that there were other termites in Honolulu 

 besides the two species named. It may be possible that this 

 species of Coptotermes is widely distributed here. A lookout 

 should be kept for it and especially for the winged forms, which 

 were not present in the colony in the Kamehameha Chapel. 



