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caught by him on the window at the Experiment Station. Mr. 

 Timberlake stated that the species is near to P. terryl of Kanai. 



Hahjmnococcus( 'i) sp. — Mr. Ehrhorn exhibited the seeds of 

 a branching pahn from Egypt which bore specimens of a pecu- 

 liar Coccid secreting itself nnder the bracts of the seeds and re- 

 sembling a sea shell. It probably belongs to the genus Halym- 

 uococcus. A similar scale has been found on seeds of the 

 native palm (Pritchardia) in Hawaii. 



Deilephila calida. — Mr. Sw^ezey reported that he and Mr. 

 Bridwell had observed* one of these moths at Metrosideros blos- 

 soms in the daytime on Wailupe Kidge, April 21, 1918. 



Cremastus hymeniae. — This Ophionid was first recorded by 

 Marsh in 1910, he having bred it from Hymenia recur valis. 

 Mr. Swezey gave the following list of hosts at present known to 

 him: Hymenia reciirvalis, Nacoleia accepta, N. hlackhurni, 

 N. monocjona, Phlydaenia calcophanes,, P. platyleuca, Phlyc- 

 taenia n. sp. (on Campylotheca), Heterocrossa gramini color, 

 Crypfophlebia iUepida, Tortrix metallurgica, Bactva straminea, 

 Batracliedra cunicidator, Petrochroa dimorpha, Pyroderces 

 rileyi, Ereimetis flavistriata. A total of 15 species. 



Copfofermes. — ^Iv. Crawford reported this termite having 

 been taken l)y Prof. Young destroying boxes in a warehouse 

 near the waterfront. 



C rypiotennes.—'^h'. Crawford reported this termite as 

 taken at the same time as the above destroying shooks in the 

 l)undle. 



Xyleborus sp. — This Scolytid reported by Mr. Crawford 

 attacking living wood of a monkey-pod tree in Manoa Valley. 



Hypotlienemus eruditus. — Mr. Crawford reported having 

 bred this Scolytid from twigs of Amherstia nobilis last March. 

 The beetles bored thru the central axis of living terminal twigs, 

 killing new growth. The same species was very abundant in 

 dead branches of a monkey-pod tree. 



Psyllid types. — ]\Ir. Crawford reported that the types in a 



