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OCTOBEE 4tii, 1917. 



Tlie one Imndred forty-fifth meeting of the Society was 

 held in the usual place, Vice-President Pemberton in the chair. 

 Other members present : Messrs. Bridwell, Crawford, Ehr- 

 horn, Fnllaway, Giffard, Mnir, Timberlake and Willard ; and 

 Mr. Robert Veitch of Suva, Fiji, visitor. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL PROGEAM. 



Mr. Giffard exhibited two boxes of Delphacids and Ful- 

 gorids collected by him in California, during certain months of 

 1910. There were many new species. The collection was 

 worked up by Mr. Van Duzee of the California Academy of 

 Sciences and will be published elsewhere. 



Lerp-fonn'mg Psijllid. — jNfr. Ehrhorn exhibited specimens 

 of a lerp-forming Psyllid from iVustralia. 



^[r. Veitch spoke of the principal sugar cane insects in 

 Fiji — cane borer, i-oot grubs and wire-worms, and of their 

 peculiar problems and methods of control. 



Certain Aspects of Medical and Sanitary Entomology in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



BY J. C. BRIDWELL. 



[Withdrawn for publication in Report Hawaiian Medical Association, 

 1916-1917.] 



Two New Species of Nesosydne (Delphacidae), 



BY F. MUIE. 



Nesosydne phyUosterjiae sp. nov. 



$ Vertex slightly longer than broad, apex rounded ; length of face 

 twice the width, slightly widened in the middle ; median carina furcate 

 near base; antennae reaching well beyond base of clypeus, second joint 



Proc. Haw. tnt. Soc, III, No. 5, April, 1918. 



