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(as near as I can calculate) the following endemic beetles 

 having been collected by him on that Island. 

 CARABiDAE 6 species. 



CERAMBYCIDAE 1 



CURCULIONIDAE 18 



SCOLYTIDAE 3 



PROTERHINIDAE 13 



CIOIDAE (Cis) 10 



CioibAE ( Apterocis) 4 



five of these being generally 

 distributed throughout the 

 Islands. 



four of these being generally 

 distributed on other Islands . 



five of these being generally dis- 

 tributed on other Islands. 



one being generally distributed 

 on other Islands. 

 Since the above visits the forests and other local conditions of 

 the Island have undergone a radical change for the worse, and it 

 is easy to foretell what is in store in this respect in the future, 

 should the depredations of goats and sheep on the little indigenous 

 forest Lanai now possesses, be allowed to continue. Today the 

 only forest on the Island worth mentioning is at the summit of 

 the mountain called Haalelepakai which reaches an elevation of 

 3,400 feet. Its area I should approximate at about two hundred 

 acres only, whilst my understanding from Dr. Perkins was that 

 during the period of his visit, it extended over a much larger 

 area. In this forest may be found a fair number of native trees 

 such as Ohia-lehua {Metrosideros polymorpha) , Fnsi {Olea sarid- 

 wicensis) , Naieo {Myoporum sandwiceyise) , species of Straussia, 

 Pelea, Lobelia, and Euphorbia, etc., together with the usual 

 undergrowth of tree and other ferns, as well as occasional clumps 

 of leie {Freycinetia) . The condition as to deforestation referred 

 to also extends to the sides of the valleys and gorges which are 

 found on the upper sections of the slopes and plains that reach 

 to the only mountain range on the Island. In olden times these 

 valleys or gorges were well covered throughout with forest growth, 

 but very little now is to be found unless one travels far into their 

 innermost recesses. Barring, therefore, the small area of indi- 

 genous forest before mentioned, and the upper sections of some 

 of the valleys referred to, the Island, as I found it, is of but 

 little interest to the collector of endemic insects. I think it is 

 possible, however, to secure today most, if not all, of the endemic 



