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with lamellate projections spirally arranged. Breaking an egg, 

 I found that the egg itself is white and smooth, enclosed by this 

 outer rongh ernst, which mystified me somewhat until a few 

 days later I happened to observe the female in the act of supply- 

 ing an egg with this outer covering. She had already extruded 

 the egg and was holding it between the hind tarsi while she de- 

 I^osited a covering of excrement on it from the anus. This was 

 done bit by bit as she slowly revolved the egg from right to left, 

 the whole process occupying about an hour. When entirely cov- 

 ered the egg was dropped. The excrement appeared like freshly 

 chewed-up leaf material of which the beetle had been feeding 



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reduced. 



JUXE 4th, 1914. 



The one hundred-sixth 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 : 

 Messrs. Back, Bryan, Ehrhorn,.Osborn, Pemberton and Warren. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



Owing to the inability of ]\Ir. Bridwell to continue as Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer of the Society, on account of his absence' 

 from Honolulu, Mr. Pemberton was elected to fill the office for 

 the "balance of the year. 



On motion, it was decided to change the meeting place of 

 the Society to the Sugar Planters' Experiment Station. 



EXTO^rOLOGICAL PROCJRAIM. 



]\rr. Ehrhorn exhibited a Syrphid fly which had become 

 impaled on a sharp thorn in a rosebush, the thorn piercing the 

 fly on the dorsum of the thorax between the wings. He sug- 

 gested the probability of its having become caught as a result 

 of its own exertions or by the wind. 



]\Ir. Swezey announced having bred a species of Ephedrus 

 from the rose aphis, the parasite not having been ])reviously 

 recorded here. 



iMr. Ehrhorn exhibited a coconut containing within the 

 stem-end a quantity of minute, active, hair-like worms. 



Mr. Ehrhorn also exhibited a portion of a spineless cactus 



