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localities where it is found more or less abundantly in sod land. 



New Syrphid. — Mr. Timberlake exhibited larvae and puparia 

 of an aphidivorous Syrphid new to the islands, collected on 

 corn infested with Aphis maidis at the College of Hawaii, 

 Manoa \^alley. A single larva was also found a month earlier 

 at the Federal Experiment Station on corn, but it died of 

 disease. 



Scarahaeids from Queensland. — Mr. Swezey exhibited a set 

 of 18 injurious Scarahaeids and 7 species of their parasites 

 collected by Mr. Illingworth in Queensland. 



MARCH 4th, 1920. 



The 174th meeting of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 

 was held at the usual place. Mr. Williams presided, and other 

 members present were Messrs. Bridwell, Bryan, Ehrhorn, Gif- 

 fard, Rosa, Swezey, Timberlake, and Willard. Mr. Timberlake 

 was appointed Secretary pro tem., and the minutes of the two 

 previous meetings were read and approved. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL PROGRAM. 



On behalf of ]\Ir. Fullaway. the acting Secretary presented 

 a note on "Cryptoferines breiis in Hawaii." 



Cryptotermes brevis in Hawaii (Isoptera). 



BY D. T. FULLAWAY. 



Examples of this immigrant species of Cryptotermes found 

 commonly in Honolulu were recently referred by me to Air. 

 Thomas E. Snyder of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology for 

 determination. Mr. Snyder identifies the species with Cryp- 

 totermes hrevis (Walker) and gives the habitat as South and 

 Central America, the West Indies, and in the United States only 

 at Key West, Florida. In Cuba and at Key West, Florida, 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IV, No. 3, September, 1921. 



