broaght to him in March; he has nests of the Hawaiian hawk 

 which were secured in autumn. These facts lead Mr. Bryan 

 to the beUef that possibly, owing to the insecurity of nesting in 

 March, they are adapting themselves by transferring the nesting 

 season to autumn. However, the data are too meager as yet to 

 allow of anything but speculative generalizations. Mr. Kotinsky 

 based his belief on the present month corresponding to spring in 

 the temperate zone on the following: The Koa tree (Acacia 

 koa) is now everywhere in blossom. Out of six specimens of 

 Plagithmysus puherulentus ( ?) collected by Mr. Terry and 

 himself, on Koa on Kalihi Heights on February 26th, three were 

 in the act of oviposition. Pyrameis tameanvca, a beautiful but 

 infrequent sight during the winter months, was observed by Mr. 

 Giffard and himself on Tantalus on March 5th in droves of 20 

 and more fluttering about certain spots on Koa trees. In general, 

 there seems a revival of insect and vegetable life. Mr. Terry 

 suggested that the nesting season of birds is gauged by the food 

 supply. Mr. Craw stated that the San Jose scale {Aspidiotus per- 

 niciosus) as observed in California by Prof. Comstock and himself 

 in 1880, had only produced one brood, but shortly after that all 

 stages of the insect could be found upon the trees throughout the 

 summer. Mr. Kotinsky said that in the opinion of many entomol- 

 ogists the San Jose scale having spread out to its farthest limits, 

 north, south, east, and west of North America, seems now to have 

 run its course, so to speak, and ceased to be the dread it once 

 was. Neither could this degeneracy be attributed, in the Eastern 

 states at least, to the activity of parasites. Mr. Bryan, concurring, 

 referred to the instance of the Western grasshopper which has 

 ceased to be a dread pest. Mr. Craw asserted his unshaken 

 belief in parasites, and related the story of Leca7iiu7n oleae being 

 subdued by ScutcUista cyanea; he also stated that Mr. Boggy had 

 recorded a grasshopper parasite which killed 90% of its host. Dr. 

 Cobb remarked that the grasshopper fungus has been experimented 

 wuth in New South Wales, but met with no greater success than 

 elsewhere. The hopper-dozer is used effectively there. 



Mr. Kirkaldy raised the question of grasshoppers as food; he 

 had tried some but found them rather gritty. He had also some 

 years ago sampled some dried Arctocorisa merceiiaria, used for 

 food in Mexico, but could not speak favorably of the flavor, this 



