60 

 MAY Tth, 1914. 



The one luiiidred-fiftli regular meeting of the Society was 

 held at 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 

 and Pemberton. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



ENTO:\IOLOC-HCAL NOTES. 



Mr. Pemberton exhibited the introduced Zehis reynardii 

 and a lady-beetle (Rhizohius rentralis) on which he had found 

 it feeding. He reported having seen the first instar larvae of 

 this bug feeding on thrips and red spiders. Mr. Bridwell re- 

 ported having seen this bug very abundant in the Imperial Val- 

 ley of California, and commonly feeding on lady-beetles. 



Mr. Ehrhorn reported seeing a Pentatomid bug feeding on 

 the live-oak caterpillar in California. 



Mr. Illingworth remarked on the habit of the common centi- 

 pede in brooding over her eggs. A general discussion of the 

 habits of centipedes and scorpions followed. 



Mr. Ehrhorn exhibited a yam from Manila, taken in quar- 

 antine inspection, infested with Aspldiotus hartii, a scale pre- 

 viously reported from West Indies and Central America. 



Mr. Ehrhorn called attention to the description of Eutlirlp's 

 hairaiiensis Morgan, from material collected on cotton In- ^Ir. 

 Fullaway. (Proc. IT. S. Xat. Mus. 46, 3, 1913.) 



Mr. Fullaway reported finding an undetermined species of 

 Chirotkrips on daikon in Honolulu. 



Prof. Illingworth gave some observations on recent damage 

 by onion thrips. Dr. Back reported the killing out of about ten 

 acres of onions by this thrips at Kailua on the windward side 

 of Oahu. 



Mr. Bridwell exhibited a frond of Asplenium kaidfussii in- 

 fested by aphids, determined by Mr. Fullaway as Idiopteris ne- 

 pJirolepidis Davis, described from specimens from a greenhouse 

 in Chicago. 



Mr. Fullaway discussed the attacks of Gelechia gossypiella 

 on the cultivated Hibiscus. 



