Insects Occurring on Plants of Lobelioideae in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



BY O. II. SWEZEV. 



The species of this family are not much attacked by insects. 

 Those which do attack them are not particularly injurioas to 

 the plants. The fact that so few insects attack the Lobelioideae 

 accounts for there having been less special attention given to 

 collecting insects from these plants than to many others which 

 yield insects in greater numbers. 



Some of the insects mentioned below may be specially 

 attached to their respective plants, not having been reared from 

 others ; but the records are altogether too meager to state with 

 certainty until more observations are made. The following 

 list is made u\) from the records of several entomologists : 

 Dr. Perkins, Messrs. Giffard, Swezey, Timbcrlake and Brid- 

 well. 



These records are almost entirely from collecting on the 

 Island of Oahu. If special collecting should be done on the 

 Lobelioideae on the other islands no doubt many more species 

 could be added to the list. 



HYMEXOPTERA. 



Family Beaconidae. 



Microdus Juuraiicola. Bred from Thywcopa sp. in dead 

 stem of Clermonfia. 



A Figitid has been collected on Bollandia. It was probably 

 parasitic on a Drosophilid. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Family Geleciiiidae. 



Thyrocopa sp. This moth has been reared from larvae in 

 dead stems of Clermontia. 



Prcc. Maw. Ent. Sec, IV. Xo. r, June. iQrt). 



