﻿most 
  difficult 
  to 
  deal 
  with, 
  and 
  unless 
  they 
  be 
  specially 
  collected 
  

   and 
  carefully 
  mounted, 
  while 
  fresh, 
  are 
  of 
  little 
  practical 
  use. 
  

   The 
  spread 
  of 
  many 
  imported 
  species 
  amongst 
  the 
  native 
  ones, 
  

   both 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  genera, 
  has 
  rendered 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   the 
  endemic 
  fauna 
  still 
  more 
  unsatisfactory. 
  

  

  RHYNCHOTA. 
  

  

  At 
  a 
  recent 
  meeting 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  I 
  exhibited 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  

   over 
  fifty 
  species 
  of 
  Rhynchota 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  recently 
  taken 
  in 
  ten 
  

   days 
  of 
  general 
  collecting 
  in 
  the 
  immediate 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  the 
  

   Hotel. 
  These 
  included 
  Capsidae 
  (10 
  species), 
  Reduviolus 
  (7), 
  

   Nysius 
  (5), 
  Sephora 
  (1), 
  Orthoea 
  (1), 
  Ithamar 
  (1), 
  Acanthia 
  (2), 
  

   Oechalia 
  (1), 
  Coleotichus 
  (1), 
  Oliarus 
  (4), 
  Jassidae 
  (7), 
  Delphaci- 
  

   dae 
  (10), 
  Psyllidae 
  (several). 
  By 
  extending 
  one's 
  collecting 
  

   ground 
  to 
  Olaa 
  and 
  adjoining 
  districts 
  this 
  list 
  could 
  be 
  much 
  in- 
  

   creased, 
  or 
  even 
  by 
  special 
  research 
  at 
  Kilauea 
  itself, 
  since 
  the 
  

   list 
  includes 
  no 
  species 
  of 
  Emesidae, 
  Anthocoridae, 
  etc. 
  Some 
  

   of 
  these 
  I 
  have 
  on 
  other 
  occasions 
  found 
  very 
  numerously 
  there. 
  

   The 
  species 
  of 
  Acanthia 
  were 
  found 
  running 
  on 
  tree 
  trunks, 
  high 
  

   up 
  above 
  the 
  ground, 
  in 
  the 
  damp 
  fern 
  forest. 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  remem- 
  

   ber 
  to 
  have 
  noticed 
  them 
  in 
  this 
  situation 
  before. 
  Of 
  the 
  other 
  

   bugs 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Reduviolus 
  are 
  the 
  most 
  interesting, 
  each 
  

   having 
  its 
  own 
  special 
  habits 
  or 
  habitat, 
  but 
  on 
  the 
  whole 
  the 
  

   bugs 
  are 
  much 
  less 
  interesting 
  than 
  the 
  Neuroptera 
  of 
  Kilauea. 
  

  

  THYSANOPTERA. 
  

  

  As 
  everywhere 
  in 
  the 
  islands, 
  Thysanoptera 
  are 
  very 
  abun- 
  

   dant 
  and 
  the 
  species 
  are 
  probably 
  numerous. 
  They 
  require 
  

   special 
  collecting 
  and 
  mounting, 
  and 
  as 
  they 
  probably 
  present 
  

   long 
  series 
  of 
  very 
  closely 
  allied 
  species 
  like 
  the 
  genera 
  of 
  Ha- 
  

   waiian 
  insects, 
  the 
  discrimination 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  one 
  

   of 
  great 
  difficulty. 
  ■ 
  The 
  wingless 
  forms 
  are 
  much 
  more 
  bulky 
  

   than 
  the 
  winged, 
  as 
  is 
  so 
  often 
  the 
  case 
  in 
  man 
  3^ 
  apterous 
  or 
  

   subapterous 
  Rhynchota. 
  

  

  COLEOPTERA. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  not 
  possible 
  at 
  present 
  to 
  compile 
  a 
  complete 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  

   Kilauea 
  Coleoptera, 
  partly 
  because 
  many 
  species 
  are 
  not 
  as 
  yet 
  

   described, 
  and 
  partly 
  because 
  some, 
  collected 
  abundantly 
  in 
  

   other 
  localities, 
  have 
  not 
  specially 
  been 
  registered 
  from 
  this 
  one 
  

   This 
  latter 
  remark 
  applies 
  still 
  more 
  strongly 
  to 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  

  

  