U. S. IN"., and transmitted hj Governor Poyer. It included 

 moths, butterflies, phasmids, dragonflies, and roaches ; also a 

 few Aculate Hymenoptera collected bj Professor E. W. Doane 

 at Apia, British (formerly German) Samoa. 



Plutella maculipennis. — Mr. Swezey exhibited a series of 

 this moth bred from the pods of Capparis sandwich ens is, col- 

 lected on a rocky ledge a little east of Diamond Head. The 

 series presented variations. 



keratitis capitata. — Mr. Swezey reported breeding seven 

 adult Mediterranean fruitflies from a fruit of Capparis sand- 

 wicliiana, from the same locality as above. It is the first rec- 

 ord of this being a host plant for this fly. 



Ch el onus hiackhurni. — Mr. Swezey reported on some ol)- 

 servations made by him on the habits of this Braconid which 

 indicate that it has similar habits to C. texanus, the biology 

 of which was published l\y Pierce and Holloway in the Journal 

 of Economic Entomology, V, p. 425, 1912. He observed the 

 adults of (li el onus flying about an Aniaraiitits phint on which 

 Hymenia recnrcaJis was breeding, and saw them apparently 

 ovipositing in the Hymenia eggs. Of 11 eggs collected froui 

 the plant, only one went thru to maturity and produced a moth, 

 Seven were destroyed by an egg-parasite {Fentarthron flarum), 

 and two hatched caterpillars which nearly reached their full 

 growth, spun cocoons, then were devoured by the Braconid 

 larva which had developed inside each of them. On account 

 of being disturbed, the larvae failed to make cocoons and did 

 not mature, tlio they developed far enough to be recognized as 

 CheJonus. and tlnis demonstrates the similarity of its life-his- 

 tory to that of C. texanus and perhaps other species of Che- 

 loniis. 



Nests of Philippine Wasj^s. — Mr. Williams exhibited the 

 peculiar nests of certain solitary wasps found in the Pliilip- 

 pine Islands, and gave notes on the habits of the builders. 



