Summary of the Collection of Insects 
in the Museum. 
By OTTo H. SwWEZEy, M.S. 
THE Bishop Museum portion of the insects collected by Dr. 
Rk. C. L. Perkins has hitherto been stored in the original boxes in 
which they were returned from England, after having been worked 
up, but during the years 1908 and 1909 they have mostly been 
transferred to exhibition drawers of the Museum cases at the 
north end of the first gallery of Hawaiian Hall, where they 
are convenient of access to those wishing to see or study them. 
Additional instalments were received during 1909, and these are 
as yet retained in store boxes. The //emzpteva have not yet been 
received, and there are possibly a few yet to come of some of the 
other orders. ‘Those on hand at present are summarized on the 
following page. 
A small exhibit of unnamed Japanese insects given by Mr. 
G. P. Wilder comprises the following: Hymenoptera, 34 speci- 
mens; Lepidoptera, 259 specimens; Coleoptera, 158 specimens; 
Flemiptera, 15 specimens. eae 466 specimens. 
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