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goats around the mountain top, though still common enough inside 

 the crater. 



In this region Garahidcs form the chief part of the beetle fauna. 

 Barypristus rupicola, Mauna frigida,2. large strongly punctured Cyclo- 

 thorax, and two or three smaller species of that genus are found right 

 up to the summit. Oodemas is also found above 9000 feet. 



Two or three Noctuce are abundant, but were most difficult to 

 catch, Leucania and Agrotis-\\ke species, and several Pyralidina were 

 peculiar to the region. 



From 7000 to 8000 feet two Geometers were seen, a small black 

 JEwpitlieeia flying in the sun in the shelter of a gully, and a narrow 

 pointed winged form resembling Melanippe. A large Tineid with 

 .reduced winga and incapable of flight is shaken from a grass tuft 

 above 9000 feet, while a Pterophorus abounds amongst Vaccinium. A 

 large Ophion is probably new, and the few Aculeates, two or three 

 Odyneri and a very common Prosopis, ai'e quite peculiar to the region. 



From the top the view is magnificent, the far off mountains of 

 West Maui, with the old crater of Eke, show up clearly beyond 

 the low lying fields of sugar-cane. The sea of bi"ightest blue and 

 snow-white line of surf, the villages 'on the plains below, and miles of 

 dense forest land between, are spread in full view ; still further off 

 rise up the three neighbouring Islands, Lanai, Molokai and Kahoolawe, 

 and at our back behind the crater the giant mountains of Hawaii, the 

 snow still glistening on their summits. The vast summit crater 30 

 miles in circumference, with sheer walls 2000 feet deep, is itself worth 

 the hardest journey. From the bottom rise up numerous red cones, 

 mere hillocks as seen from above, but in reality rising 200 or 300 feet 

 above the floor of the crater ; but best of all is the scene in early 

 morning as the clouds pour into this vast pit or roll away before the 

 rising sun. Indeed, if equalled, it is impossible that Haleakala can 

 be excelled by any part of the globe in scenic interest. 



In the above account I have attempted to give an idea of what 

 may be expected in general collecting in one of the most easily worked 

 parts of the group, and one above the average in productiveness. 

 Many of the trees and plants mentioned are such as form the greater 

 part of the forests throughout the Island. Generally speaking low- 

 growing plants are, with a few exceptions, utterly unproductive, and 

 so I have named but few. 



Maui : June 1st, 1896. 



