PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Hawaiian Entomological Society 



Vol. III . 1^0. 2. Jax. 1914-Apkil 1915. Jim^ 1915. 



JAA^UARY Stk, 1914. 



The one h unci red -first regular meeting of the Society was 

 held in the nsnal place, President Swezey in the chair. Other 

 members present : Messrs. Bridwell, Ehrhorn, Osborn, Peml^er- 

 ton, and Warren. 



Ifinntes of the previons meeting read and approved. 



The president read a letter recently received from Mr. Mnir, 

 who is now in Formosa engaged in the search of parasites on the 

 'Anomala beetle. An interesting account w^as given of his work 

 there. 



On motion it was decided that the Liln-ary of the Society be 

 assembled and retained at the Board of Agricnltnre and For- 

 estry. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL ATOTES. 



IMr. Ehrhorn reported the finding of a colony of the ter- 

 mite Coptoteniie^ sp. in the Douglass fir timber supporting the 

 band stand in the Capitol grounds. The timbers had been large- 

 ly destroyed by them. Several of the timbers contained a cone 

 about 18 inches long and 8 inches in diameter, composed of a 

 composite material manufactured by the termites from the wood. 

 One of these cones was being kept to secure adults if possible 

 from the nymphs which were now present. Some timbers were 

 sound while others had been completely destroyed. The same 

 band stand had been repaired five years previously when it had 

 been similarly affected, apparently by the same inset tho its 

 identity was not made known at that time. In the present re- 

 building of the stand creosoted timbers have been used. This 

 termite is the same species that ]\fr. Swezey reported at the pre- 

 vious meeting as doing considerable damage in the floor timbers 

 of the Kamehameha Chapel, and the work of which had not pre- 



