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cussion at a special meeting of the Society cal]e<l for that pur- 

 pose, June 17th: 



1. A Descriptive Card Catalogue of all insects recorded 

 in HaAvaii should be compiled and maintained at the IMusenm; 

 and a Check List and Bibliography should be printed. This is 

 necessary as a basis for future work, in order that what has 

 already been done may readily be ascertained and where to find 

 it in the literature. Ultimately, similar Catalogues should be 

 prepared for the whole Pacific. The Library should be made 

 as complete as possible in literature on Hawaiian entomology; 

 in fact, for that matter, inclusive of the whole Pacific, ulti- 

 mately. (It is advisable, if it is possible to do so, that the 

 entomological books of the Library be made available for with- 

 drawal when desired for use outside by the entomologists of 

 the other Institutions on occasions when it is impossible or in- 

 convenient for them to spend the necessary time at the Museum- 

 to make use of them.) 



2. At the Museum should be acquired and maintained 

 available for study, the most complete Reference Collection of 

 Hawaiian insects in the Islands. At present, the Museum has 

 in the Perkins collection a very substantial beginning for this. 

 It contains 64% of the species known and listed at the time 

 the 'Tauna Hawaiiensis'" was published. Many new species 

 have been described since then, new immigrants have arrived, 

 and there have been many insects purposely introduced on 

 account of their economic importance. The Museum collection 

 should contain specimens of all of these. The entomologists of 

 the other Institutions of the Territory are ready to cooperate 

 in bringing the Museum collection to completion. The intro- 

 duced insects can readily be supplied. 



Much wall remain, however, for the Museum to do in the 

 way of expeditions to particular localities of the Islands for 

 securing specimens of species now lacking in the collection, as 

 well as search for new species, which are continually being 

 found by the incidental collecting trips of the entomologists of 



