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puncturation ; propodeum dull, and without evident punctures, second 

 abdominal segment, somewhat raised near the base, strongly longitudi- 

 nally convex in profile, but not conically tuberculate; beneath, abruptly 

 raised behind the costae to a height equal to that of its basal part, the 

 costae distinct, the depression shallow but wide and evident. Length 

 7 mm. 



Hab. Maui, on the lower slopes of Haleakala, a very obscure 

 species. I have not seen the female. 



Mr. J. KoTiNSKY read two papers: (1) "Some new Coccidae 

 from the Hawaiian Islands;" (2) "Some new Aleyrodidae from 

 the Hawaiian Islands," to be published elsewhere. 



MAY 3rd, 1906. 



The sixteenth regular meeting was presided over by Mr. 

 F. W. Terry. 



Notes and Exhibitions. 



Mr. Wilder exhibited specimens of cypress twigs, the bark 

 of which was gnawed off by the Roach {Eleutheroda dytiscoides). 



Mr. Muir exhibited two specimens of Coccinella repanda from 

 Fiji. These specimens agreed with Froggatt's figure and 

 description (Misc. Pub. No. 592 Agric. Gaz. of New South Wales, 

 1902) also with Crotch (Revision of Coccinellidae) , and differed 

 from Hawaiian specimens in several features, viz.: smaller and 

 less ovate; much more finely sculptured and duller; thorax black 

 anteriorly edged with orange — red expanding into blotches at 

 anterior angles of thorax, the Hawaiian specimens having the 

 orange-red much larger and a central mark running posteriorly ; 

 the anterior mark on elytra V-shaped, not broken into three 

 distinct spots; a third spot on posterior end of elytra. The two 

 cannot be referred to the same species ; which then is C. repanda? 

 if the Fijian is the type, then what is the Hawaiian? 



Mr. Kotinsky exhibited two specimens of Cryptorhyncus 

 mangiferae collected by Mr. Haughs in Moanalua Valley upon a 

 piece of wood at the base of a mango tree below the Polo grounds. 

 According to Mr. Haughs none of the trees in the vicinity are less 

 than four or five years old and the question how these insects 

 got there is interesting. Upon stabbing the specimens Mr. 

 Kotinsky heard them make a distinct noise much like that 

 produced by the stridulation of some Longicorns. 



