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After my experience of the previous winter I concluded that it would be better to 

 spend this season on the small and comparatively dry island of Lanai, the forest area 

 being very small. Nearly all my extensive series of Lanai birds, shells and insects were 

 obtained during these months. In March 1894 I proceeded to Maui, working with not 

 too much success in the broken West Maui mountains, where I have invariably had 

 bad luck from weather or other causes, and with satisfactory results on Haleakala. As 

 I was returning to England for the winter I was unable to make a stay of more than 

 two months, after which I went to Kauai and collected over the high plateau of the 

 middle of the island and also to some extent on the lower and drier parts of the moun- 

 tains. During this summer I revisited Lanai for a short period of camping and finally 

 proceeded to windward Hawaii for a brief stay. At the end of the summer I left for 

 England and for four months was engaged in working on the specimens, so far collected, 

 and described the bees and wasps that had been obtained, this latter work being revised 

 subsequently and published much later. 



In the spring of 1895 on my return to the islands I first made a lengthy stay on 

 Kauai, visiting various parts of the islands and afterwards went to Hawaii, collecting in 

 the Hilo, Puna and Kau districts. In the winter months several camping expeditions 

 were made on Mauna Kea, birds being the chief object. On two of these expeditions 

 there was not a single day without heavy rain and the collecting was very trying. On 

 account of the density of the forest, I had a gang of natives with me, in order to cut 

 trails through the forest. They all suffered much from the wet and cold, it being 

 impossible to dry clothes for sleeping in, and one of them met with a bad accident. On 

 my last attempt, however, I had exceptional weather for two weeks and secured the 

 bird I chiefly wanted, and some rather nice insects. In February 1896 I spent some 

 time in a tent on the Waianae mountains, at a higher elevation than had been possible 

 in 1892, and afterwards revisited Kauai (more than once), Molokai, Lanai, Hawaii and 

 Maui. One of the Kauai expeditions, when I camped on the wet side of the island, was 

 very poor in results, but other localities yielded well. In January 1897 some time was 

 spent in collecting on the west side of the West Maui mountains, but this collecting was 

 done under many difficulties. Leaving Maui, I camped out for some weeks on Kauai. 

 Shortly afterwards I left for England by way of Arizona and Mexico. After working 

 on the collections and completing the descriptions of Hymenoptera already referred to, 

 as well as the Neuroptera, Orthoptera and some families of Coleoptera, I returned to 

 the islands early in igoo. In this and the following year my work was almost entirely 

 confined to Oahu. I rarely carried a gun, and paid little attention to anything but 

 insects and mostly limited my observations to certain groups of these. Very little 

 indiscriminate collecting was attempted. Beetles such as are easily obtained by indis- 

 criminate beating of trees or by sweeping these, were almost all collected by special 

 search, as I wished to obtain a more certain knowledge of their habits and particulariy 

 of the restriction of species to one food-plant, the variation of individuals found in 



