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EXTO^rOLOGICAL PROGRAM. 



Mr. Elirliorn stated that from some egg-clusters of the man- 

 tid, Paratenodera sinensis, which were sent him from Hawaii 

 several months ago, he had succeeded in rearing an adult fe- 

 male, from which he had already secured one egg-cluster. In 

 growing to maturity the nymph had been fed on a succession 

 of insects composed of plant lice, fruit flies, melon flies, bees 

 and grasshoppers respectively. He stated that the adult showed 

 from repeated experiments, an instinctive tendency to avoid a 

 bee's sting when capturing and holding it. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited a specimen of the Megachilid, Lithur- 

 gus aJbofimhriatus, taken by him on Coconut Island in Kaneohe 

 Bay, Oahu, November 15, 1914 ; where he had found it in its 

 nest in a hole excavated in the pithy base of a dead date-palm 

 leaf. It was the first observation of the nesting habits of this 

 bee in the Hawaiian Islands, tho an occasional specimen has 

 been taken during the past ten or twelve years. In the nest no 

 cut leaves are used as Megacliile fdlmarum does, but a mass of 

 pollen is simply stored up on which the egg is laid quite similar 

 to the large carpenter bee, Xylocopa brazilianorum. Mr. Swezey 

 also exhibited a specimen of Lithurgus albofinibriatus taken 

 from a nest in a dead tree at Suva, Fiji, JuW, 1912. The 

 species was originally described from Tahiti. 



Mr. Swezey stated that he had taken 5 more specimens of 

 the Coniopterigid, Coniocompsa vesiculigera, since the capture 

 of the first one mentioned at a recent meeting of the Society. 

 They M-ere attracted to lights at his house in Kaimuki. Mr. 

 Pemberton stated that he had recently found them quite numer- 

 ous about his lamp in Manoa in the evenings. 



Insects from French Frigate Shoals. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



The following insects were found on a collection of plants 

 made by Dr. AVm. Kerr, surgeon of the U.S.S. "Rainbow", at 

 French Frigate Shoals, October, 191-1. The- plants Avere col- 

 lected on a sand island which had an elevation of about seven 

 feet. They were collected just before departing from the island 

 to return to Honolulu, and were still in fairly fresh condition 

 when received a few days later : 



(1) Ant, Monomorium destructor (Jerd.). A few dead 



