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(imported from California and now growing at the Waialae 

 Dairy), which was so heavily infested with the scale, Diaspis 

 ecMnocacti, as to be almost entirely covered. He reported this 

 scale to be very abundant in spots on the plants and in some 

 cases completely absent from adjoining plants. The scale was 

 well parasitized by a species of Aphelinus, the parasite attacking 

 both male and female scales. Mr. Ehrliorn estimated that 75% 

 of the scales were parasitized. 



Mr. Ehrhorn further exhibited a thread-like worm, three 

 inches long when alive, which had. been working in pine seed- 

 lings from Maui. 



Mr. Swezey reported the capture of a number of winged 

 termites at night as they were swarming at lights on Hotel and 

 ]Sruuanu streets. As they differed from the two well-known 

 termites, he considered that they were the winged forms of the 

 Coptotermes sp. which had been found so abundantly working 

 in a fallen flag pole and in the bandstand at the Capitol grounds 

 early in the present year. Xo winged individuals had been 

 found in those colonies. 



Mr. Swezey also reported that the female Chrysomelid, 

 D 'melius auratus whose egg-laying habits were reported on by 

 him at the previous meeting, had now laid 164 eggs in the period 

 of over two months which she had been in captivity. Dr. Van 

 Dyke, who had dtermined the species, reports it as common 

 thruout the United States. 



Mr. Pemberton mentioned the rearing of four specimens of 

 Opius liumilis from about 2,000 fruits of BunicVia sp., heavily 

 infested with f ruitfly larvae. 



Dr. Back showed that so far this represented but a small per- 

 centage of larvae parasitized, as about 3,000 adult fruitflies 

 issued from this same lot of fruit. 



New Hawaiian Microlepidoptera. 



BY <^TT(^ ir. SWEZKY. 



The following five species have recently been named by 

 Mr. August Busck from specimens that I sent him for determi- 

 nation and description if new.* 



Platyptilia lantana. This is the plume moth in the flower 

 clusters and fruit of lantana. It was introduced from Mexico 

 by Mr. Tvoebele about twelve years ago. 



Published in Insecutor Inscitiae Mentruus, II, pp. 103-107, 1914. 



