﻿larj^c miinljcrs of benclicial insects not mentioned at all in this 

 lUilletin, were collected and sent to Honolulu for the benefit of 

 general agriculture. To publish details of all this work in full 

 would require much time and space, and in fact a lUilletin as 

 large or larger than the present one. We already know that 

 some of these jjeneficial insects, parasitic and predaceous, are 

 successfully established, although as yet ver\- little s])ecial in- 

 vestigation of the matter has been made. 1 think that the intro- 

 duction of almost any one of the species, that we know to have 

 become established, would fully justify our mission. 



There remains the pleasant task of thanking all those who 

 have assisted us in our endeavour to control one of the worst 

 insect pests these islands have yet seen. ( )ur thaid<s are chietl\- 

 due lo the Agents and Managers of I'lanlations in these islands, 

 who have done ever_\'thing possible to help us and taken much 

 interest in our work. Especial thanks are due to Messrs. Wm. 

 (i. Irwin & Co., Ltd., and Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. who by 

 their kind oflfices, as representatives of the steamshij) lines be- 

 tween Honolulu and the Australian Colonies, and bv letters to 

 the officials of other steamship companies in Australia and Fiji, 

 did much to secure for us a careful and successful transporta- 

 tion of the living insects. To Dr. Kottman, of the Colonial 

 Sugar Refining Co.. who on previous missions also has aided 

 Mr. Koebele, we were indelited for letters to the Managers or 

 owners of many sugar estates throughout Queensland and in 

 .\'ew South Wales, and we regret that from pressure of work 

 we were able to visit so few of these. Mr. Alexander Craw, 

 .Superintendent of Entomology under the Board of Commis- 

 sioners of Agriculture and F^orestry of this Territory, has given 

 us his assistance in the handling of the beneficial insects im- 

 l)orted, a work in which he has had a verv great exj^erience. 

 He also, previously, as Horticultural Qnarantine officer and 

 l)e])uty Commissioner of the State of California, look charge of 

 and forwarded to us the living insects despatched from Ohio 

 by Mr. Koebele in 1903, and assisted us in like manner on 

 former occasions. Without his expert handling, it is jirobable 

 that luany of these insects wotild have died while awaiting ship- 

 ment to H^onolidu. To many others, whom it is impossible to 

 name severally, we are indebted for aid rendered, both in Aus- 

 tralia and the United States. 



