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apparently been deposited by the female thrusting- her ovi- 

 positor thru the hole in the pod made by the moth larva which 

 ate the seed, and were in the space formerly occupied by the 

 seed. In one pod five successive seed cavities were occupied by 

 masses of the eggs of A. fascicnlatiis. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITIONS. 



Stnimigenys lewisi. — Mr. Williams exhibited specimens of 

 this ant taken January 4, 1920, under stones at the head of 

 Manoa Valley, at 900 feet elevation, and made the following 

 note : The first record of this species in Hawaii was made in 

 the spring of 1911 by Ehrhorn, who took the species in quaran- 

 tine, from material originating in Japan. In April, 1917, Brid- 

 well took the species in rotten wood in Palolo Valley. The 

 present record is apparently the third. 



Celerio calida. — Mr. Williams reported finding, on the same 

 day, numerous larvae of this native Sphingid on Scaevola cham- 

 issoniana at the head of Manoa Valley. He remarked that Dr. 

 Perkins stated the larvae to be polyphagous. They have pre- 

 viously been found upon Straussia, Coprosma, etc. 



Vanessa tammeamea .—'\lr . Williams reported observing this 

 butterfly clustering in numbers on the under side of the limb 

 of a koa tree. There were seven in the largest cluster. It 

 resembled the hibernation habit of similar butterflies in the 

 Temperate zone, and may be the relic of an instinct. 



Mclanocrahro ciirtipes. — Mr. Williams exhibited a male ex- 

 ample of this wasp, collected November 1, at Kilauea, Hawaii. 

 The deeply excavated abdomen and rough sculpture are pecu- 

 liarities of this wasp. 



Plagithmyshic larvae in Pittsosporum. — Mr. Bridwell re- 

 ported rearing successfully four adult beetles from larvae found 

 in Pittospornm on the windward side of Konahuanui. He 

 stated that the form is transitional between Neoclytarlns and 

 Plagithmysus, having the form of body and markings like the 

 former, and form of tarsi and pubescence of hind legs like the 

 latter. He thought, however, that it should be considered a 

 Neoclytarlns. 



Lepisma sp. — Mr. Bridwell reported capturing in the labora- 



