PROCEEDINGS 



OF TJIE 



Hawaiian Entomological Society 



Vol. Ill, No. 4. Foe the Year 1916. May, 1917. 



JANUAEY 6th, 1916. 



The one liuiulred twentv-fourtli meeting of the Society was 

 held in the usnal place, President Illing^vol•th in the chair. 

 Other niemhers present: Messrs. Bridwell, Bryan, Ehrhorn, 

 Mant, Pemberton, and Swezey. 



Minutes of i^revious meeting read and approved. 



IVOTES AND EXHIBITIONS, 



Mr. Bridwell exhibited specimens and related interesting 

 o])servations made on a number of rare, strange, beautiful, or 

 otherwise interesting insects from Australia and Africa: 



Stlgmodera. — A box of specimens exhibited, containing 

 many species of this Buprestid genus. About 300 species of 

 the genus are known in Australia, of great variety as regards 

 size, coloration, etc. About TO species are found in the 

 vicinity of Sydney, being usually taken on flowers, particularly 

 L('pfosper)nii)n and Aufiophoya. The genus is under revision 

 by ]Mr. H. J. Carter of Sydney and Avill Ix' s})lit up, several 

 sections deserving separation. Five species of the characteristic 

 African genus Julodis and a specimen of Cyria imperiaUs 

 from Sydney where it is connnonly found on the foliage of 

 Banlsia. 



Psycliopsix neii-)nani. — A bre<l specimen of this rare moth- 

 like Xeuropteron was exhil)ited. Psyrhopsis has been included 

 in the Hemerobiidae, l>ut ^ir. II. ,J. Tillyard of Sydney, whose 

 remarkable work in Xeuroptera and Odonata is clearing up 

 the affinities of many of the groups, considers the genus as 

 foi'minc; a disticnt archaic familv. He has been the first to 



