PROCEEDINGS 



Hawaiian Entomological Society 



JANUARY 4th, 1906. 



The twelfth regular, and first annual, meeting of the Society- 

 was presided over by Mr. Craw. 



Mr. Kotinsky read his reports as Secretary-Treasurer. Dur- 

 ing the eleven meetings held by the Society in the course of its 

 first year, there was an average attendance of seven and one-half. 

 There was a balance of sixty-seven dollars and eighteen cents 

 ($67.18), plus an accrued interest of two dollars and eighty-two 

 cents, ($2.82), making a total of seventy dollars ($70.00). 



Notes and Exhibitions. 



Mr. O. H. Swezey exhibited a specimen of Rhyparohia 

 maderae (Fabricius), a large cockroach new to the Hawaiian 

 Islands, and read the following notes: 



An adult specimen of this large roach was taken on the 

 evening of December 3d, 1905, at Pahala, Hawaii. It was in 

 the house of the manager of the plantation, and was captured as 

 it ran across the sitting room floor. 



The species is not mentioned in the "Orthoptera," of the 

 "Fauna Hawaiiensis" (1899), nor have I found any other 

 Hawaiian record. 



It is a native of Madeira and the west coast of Africa, and 

 was described by Fabricius as Blatta maderae, in 1781. In 1838, 

 Burmeister placed it in the genus Panchlora, and in 1892, Krauss 

 created the genus Rhyparohia and assigned this species to it. By 

 Kirby's "Catalogue of Orthoptera" (1904), there are eight 

 species of Rhyparohia, all African. 



R. maderae has become cosmopolitan, being carried by com- 

 merce. It has been reported from the Madeira and Canary 

 Islands; Senegal, Africa; Cuba; Hayti; Brazil; Java; Philippines; 

 and Great Britain. It is rare in the latter country, an occasional 



