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found, nor larvae, but the presence of the pupal cells in the 

 ^vood is taken as sufficient indication of the existence of the 

 weevil in the forest at the extreme southeastern end of the 

 Koolau Eange. The beetle has hitherto been known only on 

 Mt. Tantalus, Kaumuahona, Lanihuli and Palolo Valley. Xo 

 doubt it will eventually l)e found to occur thruout the forests 

 of this Island wherever its host plant occurs. 



]\lr. Crawford spoke at some length on three projects for 

 universities of tropical agriculture. 



FEBRUARY 6th, 1919. 



The 161st meeting of the Society was held in the usual 

 place. President Giifard in the chair. Other members pres- 

 ent : ^Messrs. Bridwell, Crawford, Ehrhorn, Fullaway, Lang- 

 ford, Muir, Pemberton, Swezey, Timberlake and Williams. 



]\linutes of previous meeting read and ap]iroved. 



XOTES AXD EXnilM rio.NS. 



Halididae. — Mr. Bridwell read the translation of a portion 

 of de AYalckenaers Memoires pour Servis a I'lTistoire Xaturelle 

 des Abeilles solitaires, que composent Ic genre TTalicte, pub- 

 lished in 1817, on the habits of this family of bees. 



Psi/cliodid. — ^Ir. Bridwell reported finding a Psychodid 

 fly very common now at Waikiki. It is black, and quite dif- 

 ferent from the Psychodid fly usually taken at light. 



Ap'ioii sp. — Mr. ^luir exhibited a specimen of this Curcu- 

 lionid found crawling up a slat on a fern house in Manoa 

 Valley, January 26th, 1919. The species is near to but dis- 

 tinct from Apion pennsylvanica, judging from the description 

 of that species. It is the first record of the finding of an 

 Apion in Honolulu. 



Psyllidae. — Mr. Crawford reported that the examination 

 of a small collection of Hawaiian Psyllids referred to him by 



