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and near Tlilo, \n\t without tinding any traces of the presence 

 of the weevil. Since that time, I have also searched for it on 

 coconut trees in Ilonoluln, at Waikiki, and at .M«»analna, with- 

 out finding any evidence of it. Perhaps.it is not present on 

 the Island of Oahn. If so, it furnishes an example of an 

 insect immigrant becoming established first on another Island 

 of the gi'oup than the one containing the main port, Honolulu. 

 The method of its arrival is a subject of conjecture, especially 

 as, where it is present oil the Island of Hawaii, is the opposite 

 side from Ililo, the main port, where it is not to be found. 

 Specimens were sent to Dr. (hiy A. K. Marshall of the 

 Imperial Bnrean of Entomology, who confirmed the identifica- 

 tion of the species and its being distinct from frumenti, the 

 species on coconuts in the Phili]>]iines and the J\Ialayan and 

 Asiatic regions. 



The Genus Phytometra (Plusia) in Hawaii (Lepidoptera). 



BY O. JI. SWKZF.V. 



Two innnigrant species have been known in the Hawaiian 

 Islands for some time: cJmlcitcs Esper and hiloba Stephens. 

 Both are listed nnder Pht.9ia in the Fauna Ilawaiiensis, I, page 

 ino, 1899. The former is quite a cosmo])olitan species and a 

 garden pest. It is found abundantlv throughout the Hawaiian 

 Islands and oven on ]\[idway Island. BUolia is an American 

 species and is only rarely collected here, but is probably on all 

 the islands, having been collected at Kona, Hawaii ; Halea- 

 kala, Mani ; and on Lanai by Dr. Perkins; at Ivilauea, Hawaii, 

 by ]Mr. Giffard ; and at Halemano, Kauai, by Islv. J. A. 

 Kusche. 



P. j)t('i\i/lvfa Mcyrick was the first endemic species dis- 

 covered. It was described in the Fauna Ilawaiiaensis, ITT, 

 Ft. IV, page 8-f8, 1904, from a single male specimen collected 

 bv Dr. Perkins on INit. Tnntalus, Oahu The female was first 

 colected at Kilauea, Hawaii, bv Pi-othcr AFattliias Xewell. 



Proc. Haw. Entoni. Soc, IV. No. 2, June. 1920. 



