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had but two specimens when he described the species. These 

 were collected by Dr. Perkins in the Waianae Mountains. 

 Later, Dr. Perkins reported the species having been bred in 

 numbers, probably from drupes of Plectronia. I once reared a 

 small specimen from flower buds of Plectronia in the same local- 

 ity from which I have now reared so many from the fruits of 

 the same tree. 



Only two species of this g-enus have l)een found in the Isl- 

 ands, the other species being on Kauai and described from a 

 single specimen. 



APRIL 2xD, 1914. 



The one hundred-fourth regular meeting of the Society was 

 held in the library of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 President Swezey in the chair. Other members present : Mes- 

 srs. Back, Bridwell, Ehrhorn, Fullaway, Illingworth, Osborn, 

 Pemberton and Warren; and Mr. Henry Tryon, Government 

 Entomologist of Queensland, visitor. 



]\Iinutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



EXTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Mr. Ehrhorn read a letter from Mr. E. E. Green, reporting 

 that the common injurious LepidosapJies on Croton, previously 

 determined as L. Jasianthi, is properly identified as L. auricu- 

 lata Green. (T. Linn. Soc. London, 12, p. 205, 1907.) 



Mr. Ehrhorn further reported a curious find in quarantine 

 inspection, being a shipment of pieces of wood containing large 

 Cerambycid larvae, sent by a Japanese physician for a cure for 

 consumption. 



Mr. Tryon related the introduction of a Ceramliycid from 

 Australia to Cape Colony in Eucalyptus timber. 



Mr. Fullaway called attention to a discussion by Dudgeon 

 on the value of fungus disease of insects in the control of pests. 

 A general discussion of insect diseases and their economic ultili- 

 zation followed, participated in by nearly all of those present. 



Mr. Tryon discussed the prickly pear pest in Queensland, 

 and gave a brief account of his mission in the study of the dis- 

 eases and insect enemies of cactus. He and Dr. Johnston were 

 just now on their return from a round-the-world expedition sent 

 out by the Queensland Government for this purpose. 



