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of insects and has added a distinct chapter to our understanding 
of Natural Selection. 
All scientific work if truthfully carried out eventually finds 
its place in the sum of human activities, but few entomologists 
working along purely scientific lines have lived to see their work 
bear such practical results as have Sharp, Blackburn, and Per- 
kins, the three founders of Hawaiian entomology. 
The number of Sharp’s writings is over 250, and it has only 
been possible to list those dealing with the Hawaiian Islands. 
Works ON HAWAIIAN ENTOMOLOGY BY Dr. Davin SHARP. 
1878. Description of a new species probably indicating a new 
genus of Anchomenidae, from the Sandwich Islands. 
Ent. Mo. Mag., XIV, pp. 178-180. 
1878. Descriptions of some new species and a new genus of 
Rhyncophorous Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Trans, Ent, Soc, Lond, pp. 15-26. 
1878. On some Nitidulidae from the Hawaiian Islands. Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond., pp. 127-140. 
1878. On some Longicorn Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., pp. 201-210. 
1879. On some Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. Trans. 
Pts soc. Lond. ppayad 05: 
1880. On some Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. Trans. 
Pnt, Sec: Lond: pp. 37-54. 
1881. On some Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond., pp. 507-534. 
1884. On some genera of the sub-family Anchomenini (Platy- 
nini Horn), ffom the Hawaiian Islands. Ent. Mo. 
Miag:, XX, pp. 2172219: 
1885. Notes on the genus Plagithmysus Motsch. C. R. Soe. 
Bat) Beles sp. EXC Ey-V 1. 
1885. Memoirs on the Coleoptera of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Trans, Ri Dublin’ Soc. (2) ain, pps 923007 pls: Ve 
V, by Blackburn and Sharp. 
1896. On Plagithmysus: a Hawaiian genus of Longicorn Cole- 
optera. Ent. Mo. Mag., XXXII, pp. 237-240, 241-245, 
271-274. 
