specimens of this beetle bred from larvae found in PIafyde-<))ta 

 caiiiiKuiulafa near Glen\v<xKl. Hawaii, March '2nd. 1919. They 

 are strongly markt\l with yellow, and apparently an nnde- 

 scribed species. 



Megairioza pahnicola. — ^Ir. Crawford reported that on ex- 

 amination of Psyllid adults and nymphs from palm from Gl«i- 

 wood. Hawaii, handed him by Mr. Swezey, he considered them 

 identical with or a variation of the species on palm on Oahu. 

 The nymphs of the Hawaii form have the marginal hairs or 

 projections much enlarged. 



Psyllid^ from Punahiii. — ^br. Bridwell exhibited two spe- 

 cies of Psyllids from Pnnalnu. both apparently new. 



JUXE .-.th. Ill lit. 



The Itioth meeting of the Society was held in the usual 

 place. Vice-President Crawford in the chair. Other members 

 present: ^fessrs. Bridwell, Fullaway. Pembertou, Rosa. Swe- 

 zey and Timberlake. Professor H. E. Gregory. Acting Di- 

 rector of the Bishop Museum, was present as a visitor. 



^finutes of previous meeting were read and approved. 



]Mr. Swezey presented a letter from the Director of the 

 Exjierim^t Station, H. S. P. A., extending to the Society the 

 privilege f>i making the experiment station building its head- 

 quarters as well as a depository for its library and collections. 



The Insect Fauna of the Hawaiian Bunch Grasses (Eragrostis 

 variabilis and Allies). 



BV .TOIIX COLBrRX BEIDWELT,. 



There are several species of Eragrostis in the Hawaiian 

 Islands which are closely allied and have similar habitus, oc- 

 curring usually in the bare wind-swept pali faces, sometimes 

 in rather moist bx-alities. sometimes in resrions which re- 



Proc. Haw. Entom. Soc.. T\'. Xo. 2. June. 1930. 



