Director's Report for 1918. 9 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
The Honorary Curator, Mr. O. H. Swezey, has been much 
handicapped through the departure of Mr. Bridwell, his former 
assistant in the Museum. Mr. Swezey has comparatively little 
spare time to devote to collections of the Museum, nevertheless he 
has been able to increase them during the year by 1260 specimens, 
comprising 415 species. The courtesy of his employers, the Ha- 
waiian Sugar Planters’ Association, in permitting him to take the 
honorary position and to devote certain hours to the work of the 
Museum, is very highly appreciated. The Honorary Curator re- 
ports that all of the Helms collection has been placed in the Museum 
cabinets. with the exception of the New Zealand Coleoptera yet 
remaining to be transferred from the old boxes containing them on 
arrival. 
The Hawaiian insects formerly in the gallery of Hawaiian Hall 
have been removed to the metal cases, so that now they are con- 
venient of access for reference or study. 
During the year many insects were collected in the native 
forests and prepared for study. The localities and the approximate 
number of specimens and species follow: 
Specimens Species 
romvilleyay Maui, Aqwoust (Sth. ..-. 2-222 200 70 
SSenietiemevicis Atoms 27 bhi 5c. ece ocean 60 15 
Haleakala, Maui, August 25th, 26th and 2oth.................... 300 70 
Paiwilkiveblawaitl, eptember 22nd 2-2. 260 75 
Palolo and Mt. Olympus, Oahu, October 2oth................ 169 6c 
Pacific Heights and Kaumuahona, Oahu, Nov. 17th........ 60 35 
manna Ridge, Oahu, November 24th 4.0... 120 40 
Piiiomow) Oahu Oecember ganda 100 50 
1260 415 
This material includes many species not hitherto represented in the 
collection, also a number of species not previously collected or described. 
When time or circumstances make it possible to work up this material 
in connection with the 3250 specimens collected by Mr. Bridwell in 1917, it 
will make a beginning towards supplying the species lacking in the Hawaiian 
collection, which contains but 64 per cent of the number of species listed in 
the Fauna Hawaiiensis. 
In February, 1918, the para-types of the Hawaiian Heteroptera were 
lent to Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, Curator of Entomology of the Museum of 
the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, for his assistance in 
working up the Hawaiian Heteroptera in the collections of several persons 
and institutions of Honolulu. 
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