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area extending from beneath the middle of the marginal vein. 

 Length 1.75 mm, but some are much smaller than this. 



Hab. Oahu, Mount Tantalus; bred from eggs of Rhyncogo- 

 nus blacJcburni bj Mr. W. M. Giffard. I have drawn up the 

 description from five of these, and from one male and several 

 females captured by myself at various times in the mountains 

 around Honolulu. Last October on a wet day two females were 

 captured hiding in the leaves of Freycinetia, in company with 

 the male of a very different species of Eupelmus. 



JUNE 6th, 1907 



The twenty-ninth regular meeting of the Society was held 

 in the library of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, Mr. 

 Swezey in the chair. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



Mr. Wilder expressed the regret that a specimen of Holo- 

 chlora venosa, apparently a male, that he captured in his yard 

 was unfortunately lost. 



Mr. Swezey exhibited a series of moths bred from caterpillars 

 found on wild banana leaves at Honomu, Hawaii, at an eleva- 

 tion of about 1500 feet. He considers it a new species of 

 Omiodes, and has named it meyricJd, for Mr. E. Meyrick, who 

 worked up the Macrolepidoptera for the "Fauna Hawaiiensis." 

 This species is closely allied to the palm leaf-roller (Omiodes 

 hlackhurni). Mr. Swezey exhibited moths of this latter species, 

 also, for comparison, as well as egg-clusters and caterpillers of 

 both species; and pointed out the distinctions between the two 

 species. The egg-masses of tneyrichi are more rounded and 

 less flat than those of hlackhurni, and are placed directly on 

 the surface of the leaf; whereas those of hlackhurni are 

 elongate, and are placed in a sfroove of the leaf or along beside 

 a mid-rib or vein. The caterpillars of meyricki are very 

 smooth and nearly free from black markings; while those of 

 hlackhurni have many black spots on the head ; the cervical 

 shield is heavily black-marked; and the tubercles of all seg- 

 ments are more or less margined with black. The pattern of 

 the wings of meyricki is identical with that of hlackhurni 

 except that the postmedian line of hind wings is distinctly 

 nearer the margin. The fore wings of the males of meyricki 

 are suffused with ferruginous, while those of hlackhurni have 



