2 Q2 [August, 1896. 



woods as seen from a higher level. A similar or identical species had 

 done the same last year and this spring, throughout whole districts on 

 Hawaii. The moths, which followed the larvae, for a time filled the 

 woods like swarms of bees, rising from the ground and hollow trunks 

 as one passed. 



The Pyralidina were chiefly species of Scoparia, Mestolobes and 

 Orthomecyna or allied forms. Some Micros were very abundant, pro- 

 bably nearly all (Ecophoridce , except for a few metallic species, one of 

 which has been assigned to Chrysoclista. 



Tortrices were very scarce, as they are throughout the whole group ; 

 probably they are kept down by the large number of endemic Odyneri, 

 which seem to prefer their larvae to those of other moths for pro- 

 visioning their cells. A species of Proteopteryx, well known to me on 

 other Islands, was amongst the Ohia trees, one or two other species of 

 probably undescribed genera turning up singly, A few specimens of 

 Bactra sp. ? flew gently around at sunset. 



Coleoptera on the whole were hardly as numerous as in 1894, and 

 I missed several nice species, though there was no reason to complain 

 of the Carabidcd ; the two rarities, Disenochus and Atrachycnemis, 

 were both found, though as scarce as usual. With them was a species 

 of another genus as yet undescribed, but known to me from the 

 mountains of West Maui as well as from those of Molokai. Barypristus 

 Sharpi was under bark or fallen limbs of Koa, in the chinks of which 

 I have watched it ovipositing. Various species of Metromenus, Cy do- 

 thorax and Bemhidium were more or less abundant, and a fine new one 

 of Mauna, under bark, replaces the Mauna frigida of the country above 

 the forest line, just as is the case with the two species of Barypristus. 

 Yet another species, apparently a distinct genus allied to Mauna, was 

 found singly, and a casual specimen of Blackhurnia turned up without 

 being specially looked for in its favourite locality. 



Only two water beetles, ubiquitous throughout the Island, were 

 noticed in the many streams, and Staphylinidce yielded only one or 

 two minute endemic Oligota and the common Olyptoma Blackhurni. 



CurculionidcB were rather better, with a nice species of Acalles 

 from Myrsine, a single specimen of Anotheorus ?, fine series of several 

 species of Oodemas, mostly obtained by searching dead logs with a 

 lantern after dark and under bark by day ; a solitary specimen of an 

 undescribed genus always attached to the Olapa, found on most of 

 the Islands but probably with more than one species, and Dryophthorus 

 in wet logs. 



