The following officers of the Hawaiian Entomological So- 

 ciety were elected for 1905 : 



President, R. C. L. Perkins. 



Secretary-Tre<isiirer, Jacob Kotinsky. 



Members of Executk'e Committee, Otto H. Swezey and D. L. 

 Van Dine. 



The President appointed Mr. Alexander Craw as Vice- 

 President. 



Upon motion of Mr. Van Dine, seconded by Mr. Craw, Mr. 

 Albert Koebele was unanimously elected an Honorary Member 

 of the Society. 



FEBRUARY 9th, 1905. 



The second regular meeting of the Society was held in the 

 Board Room of the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry, Mr. Per- 

 kins in the chair. 



Honorary Member — Brother Matthias Newell of Hilo was 

 unanimously elected an Honorary Member. 



Papers. 



Mr. Kotinsky read a part of his "History of Economic Ento- 

 mology in Hazvaii," the whole of which will be published else- 

 where. In the course of the subsequent discussion, Mr. Perkins 

 stated that Sphenophorus obscnrus was known upon these islands 

 about 1865, and was injurious at about that period. This did not 

 necessarily imply that it was brought here then, because since it 

 occurs in papaias, cocoanuts and royal palms, besides sugar cane, 

 it might have been introduced with some of the plants brought 

 here many years previously. He also stated that Coccinella ab- 

 dominalis was affected by the Braconid parasite Centistes ameri- 

 cana Riley, which is so destructive to Coccinella repanda, before 

 the latter was brought by Koebele to the Islands. 



Mr. R. C. L. Perkins submitted '' Eyitomological and Other 

 Notes on a Trip to Australia," and subsequently presented the fol- 

 lowing summary for publication : 



"Sydney was reached by Koebele and myself in May, and found 

 cold. An orange orchard in Parramatta was scoured for lady- 

 birds, and the first consignment was sent from those collected 

 there. There was no sugar cane, but there were many leaf-hoppers 



