208 Bracksurn—The Hawaiian Archipelago. 
retreat ignominiously before us for more than two miles before he could find 
a place where he could force a passage off the path into the forest. 
Three days were spent in the neighbourhood of the crater, during which 
we ascended a thousand feet, or more, higher up the mountain; after which 
we spent another couple of days in walking back to Hilo, and then devoted 
a few days to coast exploration. The expedition to Mauna Loa yielded a 
considerable number of new coleoptera, but not many species of extraordinary 
interest; most of those taken being more or less closely allied to forms already 
familiar on the other islands. . 
After an interval of a few years, I was able to make an expedition of six days 
to Hawaii, where I landed in May, on the south-west coast (at the scene of Captain 
Cook’s massacre); and this was the last expedition I made on the archipelago. 
From Kealakekua, my landing-place, I worked gradually upward on the western 
slopes of Mauna Loa to an elevation of about 6000 feet, and was moderately 
successful, procuring a good many of the same species that I had obtained 
previously on the other side of the mountain, together with a fair percentage of 
new things; but again I was struck with the absence of coleoptera of highly 
specialized character as compared with those of other islands. 
In concluding these general remarks on the Hawaiian Islands, I may state 
that all the evidence I have on the subject goes to show that I have collected pro- 
bably less than half the species of the coleoptera that occur on the archipelago. 
