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elated Avlien Captain Brown of the U. S. revenue cutter 

 ''Thetis" brought him five specimens which he had secured 

 on his last trip to the island. It is related to the Laysan 

 Island canary, and Professor Bryan has described it as Teles- 

 piza iiUi]H(i. 



Clerada Apicicornis Sucking Blood. (Hemip.). 



HV J. F. ILLIXGWOKTII. 



This i)redaee<:)us bug is couimonly found about buildings; 

 and there has been some question as to its feeding habits. 

 Kirkaldy suspected that it fed on Lepisma and small Blattidf^ 

 and Dr. Perkins saw a specimen feeding on a dead roach. 



These insects, in all stages, are often very common in the 

 piles of dry wood in the shops of the College. I have never 

 found them numerous in the house, but from time to time we 

 find individuals. Upon two occasions we have taken them in 

 the beds; and, just recently, I caught an adult, full of blood, 

 upon one of the sloe])iug eliildrcu. The ]daee bitten was red 

 and resembled a flea-bite. 



Habitat: The Fauna Hawaiiensis gives the distribution of 

 this species: Reunion, Celebes, Bengal, Cuba, St. Thomas, 

 Venezuela, etc. ; also, a note that it was taken by beating- 

 dead branches of a species of palm in UKunitaiu forests, on 

 Oahu. 



Webbing Clothes Moth Predaceous. 



I'.Y .1. F. ILLINGWOKTir. 



Recently the l)rushes at tlic College of Tliiwaii were found 

 to be badly eaten by the wchhiug clothes iiiorli (Tineola hlsrl- 

 liella Hummel). The brushes had been juirehased a year pre- 

 viously in the East. 



The naked, full-growu larv:ie were collected and placed 

 in a test-tube, with bits of tissue ]):i])er, so that they might 

 pupate. Several cocoons with alniost-uiature ])upae were put 

 in with them. Having no other food, the larvae dug into these 

 cocoons, during the night, and ate the liviug pupae, before 

 they spun-up themselves. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. Ill, No. 4, May, 1917. 



