OCTOBEE ;3ed, 1918. 



The one hundred iiftj-seventh meeting of the Society was 

 held in the nsual place, Vice-President Timberlake in the 

 chair. Other members present : Messrs. Bridwell, Crawford, 

 Ehrhorn, Fnllaway, Giffard, Langford, Eosa, Sweze\ and 

 Williams. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved with cor- 

 rections. 



]\Ir. Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., was elected to active member- 

 ship. 



PAPEES. 



Epyris Extraneus Bridwell (Bethylidae), a Fossorial Wasp 



That Preys on the Larva of the Tenebrionid Beetle, 



Gonocephalum Serlatum (Boisduval) 



BY FRAXCIS X. WILLIAMS. 



Epyris extraneous was first taken in the Hawaiian Islands 

 by Swezey in October and iSTovember, 1915, on the grounds of 

 the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Asso- 

 ciation at Honolulu, Oahu. Subsequentlj^ he found it in 1917 

 on the island of Maui. It is now quite abundant on Oahu 

 where it seems more partial to the lowlands and can be taken 

 at all seasons of the year. Bridwell, who described this Epyris, 

 (Xotes on a Peregrine Bethylid, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. for 

 1916, Vol. Ill, IsTq. 4, pp. 276-279, 1917), also identified 

 specimens from Los Baiios, Philippines, as belonging to this 

 species and so it seems probable that it has a fairly wide 

 Oriental distribution' 



Very little is known about the life-history of the genus 

 Epyris Bridwell (A note on an Epyris and its Prey, Proc. 

 Haw. Ent. Soc. for 1916, Vol. Ill, ^o. 4, pp. 262-263, 1917) 

 found an Epyris sp. near Capetown, South Africa, dragging 

 a small tenebrionid larva between its jaws, and in the same 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IV, No. i, June, 1919. 



