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JULY 5th, 1907. 



The thirtieth regular meeting of the Society was held in the 

 Entomological Laboratory of the H. S. P. A. Experiment Station, 

 Mr. Swezey in the Chair. 



Member elected: Mr. C. W. C. Deering. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITIONS. 



Bro. Matthias exhibited two specimens of a Conocephalid 

 collected by himself in rushes near a pool in the vicinity of Wai- 

 luku, Maui, some twent}^ years ago. The species, undoubtedly 

 introduced, is not recorded in the "Fauna Hawaiiensis," and 

 has not been collected by anyone since. 



Mr. Kotinsky read the following extract from a letter recently 

 received from Mr. W. L. Distant: "In reply to yours of the 

 7th of May, I did examine Teleonemia scriipulosa Stal, before 

 describing T. lantanae. The British Museum possesses a long 

 series of Stal's species identified by Champion, after comparison 

 with Stal's type orcotype. T. Ia7itanae is a more elongate species 

 differing principally by the shape of the discoidal area which is 

 both more elongate and narrower than in scrupulosa, in other 

 words the costal margin of the hemelytra is much less am- 

 pliated, rounded and sinuate." 



Mr. Swezey exhibited specimens of a small black Cryptor- 

 hynchine weevil whose larvae bore in stems of Orchids and in the 

 stipes of ferns. The specimens had been received a few days 

 previous from Mr. E. D. Tenney, who had in turn received them 

 from Mrs. Agnes Walker, Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu. Mrs. 

 Walker reported them very abundant among her ferns, coming up 

 from the soil when she watered the ferns. Mr. Tenney has 

 found them in stems and also in fleshy roots of Orchids in his 

 orchid-house. He presumes that this weevil has been introduced 

 in Orchids from the Philippine Islands, probably but a few years 

 ago. It was two years ago that he called Dr. Perkins' attention 

 to them in his orchid-house. Mr. Swezey reared them quite 

 abundantly from the stipes of a fern ( Sadleria cyatheoides) , grow- 

 ing along the path on Pacific Heights Ridge, back nearly to the 

 forest, in May, 1905. 



Mr. Swezey also exhibited specimens of a large Tachinid fly 

 ( Chaetogaedia monticola Bigot), with the following note: "I 

 recently reared quite a number of these Tachinids from pupae of 



April, 1908 



