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been accidentally introduced. The species occurs thruout 

 the United States from Massachusetts to Colorado, and from 

 Canada to Florida and Texas. It is recorded as bred from 

 eggs of cotton worm (Aletia argillacea), cotton boll-worm 

 (Heliothis aimigera), zebra moth (Manvestra pida), codling 

 moth (Cydia, pomonella) and lanassa lignicolor. 



This is a valuable addition to the large list of parasites 

 preying upon leaf-roller caterpillars in these islands. No 

 doubt it will be found to be well distributed already. 



MAY 2nd, 1907 



The twenty-eighth regular meeting was held in the Ento- 

 mological Laboratory of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experi- 

 ment Station, Mr. Giffard in the chair. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



Mr. Terry exhibited a native Dipteron {Drosophila 

 picticomis, G-rimshaw) bred in Honolulu from decayed 

 bananas, from a few females taken on Tantalus. 



Mr. Kotinsky exhibited a female specimen of the Orth- 

 opteron Holochlora venosa Stal, collected by Mr. G. A. Jordan 

 in an orchard up Nuuanu Valley during the last week of 

 April. Mr. Giffard's collection of the first specimen seen on 

 these islands, about a year and a half ago, was recorded in 

 these Proceedings (page 32), where it was assumed to be a 

 species of Microcentrum. Since then another specimen was 

 collected in Makiki and deposited in the Territorial entomo- 

 logical collection, and more recently Mr. Jordan collected 

 several females in various stages of development in ISTunanu 

 Valley. Egg-batches in slits of young shoots of Mango and 

 Orange had since been collected, and the young hatched from 

 them were submitted to Mr. Swezey, who stated that they looked 

 different from similar stages of the other Locustids on these 

 islands. Dr. Perkins had in his collection similar egg batches 

 collected in Honolulu some ten years ago. So far no parasites 

 had been bred from the eggs, and it would be interesting 

 to find out the cause of the appparent rarity of the species. 



Mr. Craw reported the receipt of a colony of parasites of 

 orange aphis from California and the difficulty of locating it 



