Lirector’s Report for 1917. vim 
Modeling.—Mr. J. W. Thompson, our Artist and Modeler, 
has been fully occupied during the year. He reports as cast and 
painted twenty-six ethnological specimens, some for the traveling 
collection, others of loans, among the latter remarkable copies of 
wooden idols; also sixteen casts of fish, five of fruit, two of mollusks, 
two of Hippocampus, a total of fifty-one finished models. In addition 
to these, fifteen unfinished casts. He has also prepared two bird 
skins and two crabs. Among the fish was one born without a tail, 
apparently a new species of Chzetodontide. The collection of fish 
casts in this Museum now far surpasses any similar collection and 
surely deserves a handbook, but before this can be written the 
many species in the collection unnamed and undescribed should be 
studied by an expert, and the Museum has no curator of marine 
zoology. 
Entomology.—Quoting from the report of the Honorary 
Curator Mr. Otto H. Swezey, where he speaks of the Helms collec- 
tion: ‘‘This large collection will furnish an inexhaustible source 
of entomological work in the future, as a great deal of it consists of 
unnamed specimens, and it will always be of great value for refer- 
ence by the entomologists of Honolulu, as well as of interest to the 
casual visitor, as it contains so many beautiful and queer forms, as 
well as many of immense size and peculiar structures.’’ 
While the orders Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidop- 
tera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera were transferred from the old 
boxes in which they came to the Museum to the new cabinet 
drawers without any special study, of the Coleoptera the large 
families Cicindelidze, Carabideze, Scarabzeide, Buprestide, Tene- 
brionidz, Cerambycide and Chrysomelidz were specially studied 
to determine their proper arrangement in the cabinets. There yet 
remain to be transferred part of the Chrysomelide, the Curculi- 
onidze and several minor families, and the New Zealand Coleoptera. 
In referring to the work on the Hawaiian collections Mr. 
Swezey continues: ‘‘The Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Diptera and part 
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