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effort to secure the presence of noted entomolog-ists at the Pan- 

 Pacific Scientific Congress. 



Mr. Willard reported that the committee appointed to con- 

 sider the use of the loquat as a forest cover in relation to the 

 fruitfly menace had not been able to meet as a body. He, how- 

 ever, stated that the unanimous opinion of the members of the 

 committee was to the effect that as a general proposition fruit 

 trees, including the loquat, should not be used for reforestation 

 purposes. In a lengthy discussion entered into by Messrs. Ehr- 

 horn, Swezey, Willard, Crawford, and Dr. Lyon, who dropped 

 in as a visitor, there seemed to be a feeling that the use of the 

 loquat in reforestation might be under certain circumstances a 

 distinct benefit with regard to the parasitic control of the fruit- 

 fly, although there was hesitancy among the members of the 

 Society to recommend its use. Dr. Lyon stated that he had 

 proposed the use of the loquat as a barrier along the lower edge 

 of the native forest on the Hamakua Coast, and that there was 

 no fruit-growing industry in that part of the island which could 

 be menaced by a possible increase of the fruitfly. The matter 

 was laid over to the next meeting for further consideration. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITIONS. 



Amnio plioriis insulans. — Mr. Swezey exhibited four speci- 

 mens of this beetle collected in Kaimuki by Horace Sharp, April 

 5, 1920. More specimens had been collected and some sent for 

 determination to Dr. E. C. V^an Dyke at Berkeley, Calif., who 

 considers them to belong to A. insnlaris Boheman. The species 

 was described in 1858 from Honolulu and had never been col- 

 lected since. 



Cclcrio perkinsi. — ]\Ir. Swezey exhibited an adult of this 

 endemic Sphingid reared from a caterpillar captured on Kadita, 

 in Waialae Iki Valley on March 21, 1920. He also exhibited a 

 caterpillar collected on Kadua at the same place, on May 2, 

 1920, and an tgg from which 22 parasites (Trie Jw gramma semi- 

 fumatmn) had issued a few days after being collected. Four 

 eggs were collected and all were parasitized. 



Hypocala andremona. — Mr. Swezey exhibited a specimen of 



