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Although usually ascribed to Green, the author of pallida 

 must be held to be Maskell, since he was the first to describe it. 

 The confusion arose, as in so many other cases, from the distri- 

 bution of new forms under manuscript names, long before publi- 

 cation. 



Mr. Kirkaldy also exhibited specimens of the following water 

 bugs. 



Laccotrcphes sp. from Lake Tanganyika, Africa, showing enor- 

 mously long breathing tube. 



Belostomatid from Assam. 



Amorgius indica from India, and 



Ranatra chinensis from Yokohama. 



Mr. Craw announced that SciitcUista cyanca had been introduced 

 and successfully bred on Saissetia -nigrum upon Hibiscus in a cage. 

 Several of these plants were transferred to Kapiolani Park, where 

 this scale abounds, for further propagation. He was pleased to 

 observe evidences of work by this parasite upon the identical scale 

 in the park from specimens released there some five weeks ago. 

 It was interesting to note that this insect had completed a life 

 cycle upon these islands in about 30 days, whereas it required 

 from 40 to 47 days to do so in California. 



Mr. Kotinsky stated that he had bred Spalangia hirta Haliday, 

 from pupae of Haematobia serrata collected on Oahu and Molo- 

 kai on elevations ranging between a hundred and eighteen hun- 

 dred feet. Of the Molokai pupae about 60 to 75 per cent, were 

 found parasitized. To his knowledge Mr. Terry had bred the 

 same parasite as well as S. lanaiensis Ashm. from dipterous pupae 

 collected in horse droppings at the Volcano House, Hawaii. 

 Identifications of the parasite were kindly made by Mr. Perkins 

 and by Dr. Ashmead of Washington. 



NOVEMBER 2nd, 1905. 



The eleventh regular meeting of the Society was held on this 

 date, Mr. Perkins in the chair. 



The chairman appointed Messrs. Giffard and Kotinsky to con 

 sider the advisability of having public lectures on Entomology 

 delivered at least once a vear. 



