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Vol. XII, No. 3 May, 1946
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
HAWAIIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
FOR THE YEAR 1945
HONOLULU, HAWAII OFFICERS FOR 194S
President D. D. Jensen Vice-President N. L. H. Krauss Secretary-Treasurer F. X. Williams f Walter Carter Additional Members of the Executive Committee .{ Richard Faxon I D. T. Fullaway3 Editor Emeritus O. H. Swezey Editor of Proceedings R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg Associate Editors L /• A. Bianchi (E. C. Zimmerman Librarian F. X. Williams Custodian of insect Collections F. X. Williams
MEMBERSHIP, 1945
'Adamson, A. M. McBride, O. C. Alicata, J. E. Marlowe, R. H. Bianchi, F. A. ^Marshall. Guy A. K. Bishop, L.C. 'Mumford, E. P. Bonnet, D.D. Murakami, Kenneth Bryan, E.H., Jr. Nishida, Takiyuki 'Callaghan, G. F. Pemberton, C. E. 'Carpenter, G. D. H. "Perkins, R. C. L. Carter, Walter Rosa, J. S. 'Davis, C.J. Sakimura,K. Faxon, Richard Schmidt, Carl T. Fullaway, D. T. Schmidt, Helen B. Hadden, F.C. Suehiro, Amy Hall, D. G. 'Swezey, O. H. Hilts, H. C. Tanada, Yoshinori Holdaway, F. G. "Timberlake, P. H. -Howard. I,. O. xUsinger, R. L. Hyslop, C. D. Van Zwaluwenburg, R. H. 'Illingworth, J. F. Weinrich, Wm. Ito, K. Whitney, L. A. Jensen, D. D. Williams, F. X. Keck, C. B. Wirth, W. W. Krauss, N. L. H. 'Worcester, D. J. Look, Wm. C. Zimmerman, E- C.
All correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary, Hawaiian Ento mological Society, 1S27 Keeaumoku St., Honolulu 4, Hawaii, from whom copies of the Proceedings may be obtained.
' Corresponding Member. - Honorary Member. 3 To serve in the absence of N. L. H. Krauss. CONTENTS OF VOL. XII, No. 3, MAY, 1946
(Actual date of publication, May 28, 1946)
Minutes, Notes and Exhibitions : page January meeting 463 February meeting 464 March meeting 465 April meeting 468 May meeting 471 June meeting 475 July meeting 477 August meeting 480 September meeting 483 Octobermeeting 485 November meeting 487 December meeting 489 Election of officers for 1946 490 Obituary : Lehr Artiman Whitney 492-A Book Review: The Aphidiinae of North America 493 New Insect Records for 1945 661
PAPERS
Bianchi, Fred A.: Conocephalothrips tricolor, a new Urothripid from Hawaii 499 Additions to the Thysanoptera from the Island of Hawaii 503
Davis, C. J. and Mitchell, A. L.: Host Records of Philaenus spumarius (Linn.) at Kilauea, Hawaii National Park (Homoptera: Cercopidae) 515
Jknskn, D. D.: The Identity and Host ,Plarits of Blossom Midge in Hawaii (Dip- tera: Cecidomyiidae: Contarinia) 525 Virus Diseases of Plants and their Insect Vectors, with special Ref erence to Hawaii (Presidential Address) 535
Jordan, Karl : On the Species of Araecerus Schoenherr, 1823, known from the Ha waiian Islands (Coleoptera : Anthrihidae) 517
McKknzie, Howard L.: A new Species of Lepidosaphes attacking Dendrobium Orchids in Hawaii and California (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae).. 611
MuESEBECK, C. F. W.: A new Apanteles from Hawaii (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) 615
Sailer, R. I.: The Synonymy and Distribution of Trichocorixa reticulata (Guerin- Meneviile) (Hemtptera : Corixidae) 617 SwEzey, O. H.: Some new Species of Cerambycidae from the Island ot Hawaii (Coleoptera) 621 New Species of Hawaiian Lepidoptera 625
Swezey, O. H. and Zimmerman, Elwood C.: Synonymic Notes on Argyroploce illepida (Butler) and A. carpo- phaga (Walsinghara) (Lepidoptera: Eucosmidae) 629
Usinger, Robert L.: Notes and Descriptions of Ceratocombus (Hemiptera: Cryptostem- matidae) 633
Williams, Francis X.: Psychoda pseudalternata n.sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae) 637 Stigmatomma (Fulakora) zwaluwenburgi, a new Species of Ponerine Ant from Hawaii 639 Two new Species of Astatinae, with Noteson the Habits of the Group (Hymenoptera : Sphecidae) 641
Wood, Sherwin F.: The Occurrence of Trypanosoma conorhini Donovan in the Reduviid Bug, Triatoma rubrofasciata (Degeer) from Oahu, T. H 651
Zimmerman, Elwood C.: New Usingerius from the Philippines and Borneo (Coleoptera: Cur- culionidae) 653 Browne 1887, not Douglas 1888, the Author of Orthezia insignis (Homoptera : Coccoidea) 657 A remarkable new Pseudopsectra from Maui (Neuroptera: Heme- robiidae) 659