Director's Report for igiS. 9 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Honorary Curator, Air. O. H. Swezey, lias been much 

 handicapped through the departure of Mr. Bridwell, his former 

 assistant in the Museum. Mr. Sweze}- has comparatively little 

 spare time to devote to collections of the Aluseum. nevertheless he 

 has been able to increase them during the year by 1260 specimens, 

 comprising 415 species. The courtesy of his employers, the Ha- 

 waiian Sugar Planters" Association, in permitting him to take the 

 honorary position and to devote certain hours to the work of the 

 Museum, is very highly appreciated. The Honorary Curator re- 

 ports that all of the Helms collection has been placed in the Museum 

 cabinets, with the exception of the New Zealand Coleoptera vet 

 remaining to be transferred from the old boxes containing them on 

 arrival. 



The Hawaiian insects formerly in the gallery of Hawaiian Hall 

 have been removed to the metal cases, so that now they are con- 

 venient of access for reference or study. 



■ During the year man}- insects were collected m the native 

 forests and prepared for study. The localities and the approximate 

 number of specimens and species follow : 



Specinifns Species 



lao Valley, Maui, August 8th 200 70 



Haiku, IMaui, August 27th 6o 15 



?Ialeakala, Maui, August 25th, 26th and 29th 303 70 



Kaivviki, Hawaii, September 22nd 260 75 



Palolo and Mt. Olympus, Oahu, October 20tli 160 6c 



Pacific Heights and Kaumuahona, Oahu, Nov. 17th.., 60 35 



Lanihuli Ridge, Oahu, November 24th 120 40 



Kuliouou, Oaliu, December 22nd 100 50 



1260 415 



This material includes many species not hitherto represented in the 

 collection, also a number of species not previously collected or described. 



When time or circitmstances make it possible to work up this material 

 in connection with the 3250 specimens collected by Mr. Bridwell in 1917, it 

 will make a beginning towards supplying tlie species lacking in the Hawaiian 

 collection, which contains but 64 per cent of the number of species listed in 

 the Fauna Hawaiiensis. 



bi February, 1918, the para-types of the Hawaiian Heteroptera were 

 lent to Air. E. P. Van Duzee, Curator of Entomology of the Museum of 

 the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, for his assistance in 

 working up the Hawaiian Heteroptera in the collections of several persons 

 and institutions of Honolulu. 



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