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the nalol'aka or wasp. None of these creatures are tit to be eaten. The uhini or 

 grasshopper, however, is used as food. 



The following are wild creeping things; the mouse or rat, (iolc), the makaula 

 (a species of dark lizard), the elelu, or cockroach, the fioki-poki (sow-bug), the 

 koe (earthworm), the lo (a species of long black bug with sharp claws) the aha 

 or ear- wig, the l<una-ivele-ti<clc or spider, the lalana (a species of spider), the nuhe 

 or caterpillar, the [>oko (a species of worm or caterpillar), the mw-nao or ant, the 

 mu (a brown-black bug or beetle that bores into wood), the kua-paa (a worm that 

 eats vegetables), the uku-poo or head-louse, the uku-kapa or body louse. 



Whence comes these little creatures? From the soil no doubt, but who knows? 



Speaking of the animals impoited from foreign lands during the time 



of Kamehameha I and as late as the time of Kamehameha III, Malo 



(17, p. 66), after enumerating those valuable for food continues: 



There are also some flying things that are not good for food : such as the 

 mosquito (makika), the small roach (clelu liilii). the large flat cockroach (elelu- 

 papa), the flea (ukulele, jumping louse). The following are things that crawl: the 

 rabbit, or iole-lapaki, which makes excellent food, the rat or iole- nui, the mouse or 

 iole-liilii, the centipede (kauapi) the moo-niho-niva (probably the scorpion for there 

 are no serpents in Hawaii). These things are late importations; the number of 

 such things will doubtless increase in the future. 



This prophecy has been abundantly fulfilled, for even now with our 

 efficient quarantine, new organisms frequently gain entrance. 



F. D. Bennet, an English naturalist, who came to the Pacific primarily 

 to investigate the anatomy and habits of the whales of the Southern Pacific 

 and to collect natural history material, discusses the insect fauna of Hawaii 

 (24, p. 252) as follows: 



Insects are not more numerous here than at the Society Islands ; they present, 

 also, nearly the same genera, and are equally remarkable for the apparent addition 

 of many exotic kinds to those few which were found on the soil by our navigators 

 when this archipelago was first discovered. Together with some smaller butter- 

 flies, we find at Oahu a Vcncssa, closely resembling the V. atalanta of Europe; as 

 well as a second species, differing in no appreciable respect from V. cardui; and 

 as the habitat of the latter insect is the thistle in the northern parts of the globe, 

 so here the analogous species resorts to the prickly foliage of the Argemone Mexi- 

 cana. A hawk-moth, (Sphinx pungciis) similar to that inhabiting the Society Islands, 

 is very common on tlie pastures in the vicinity of the coast. Its larva is large, of 

 a green colour witli longitudinal and oblique lilac bands on the sides, and has the 

 characteristic horn on the back. The habits of the perfect insect are similar to 

 those of the humming bird, hawk-moth. Sphinx macroglossum. It flies by day, 

 and appears to seek the warmth and brightness of the noontide sun ; and flitting 

 from flower to flower, on which it seldom alights, it drains the nectar from the 

 blossoms with its proboscis as it floats in the air with a rapid, vibratory motion of 

 the wings. On one occasion, when I was endeavouring to capture this coqueting 

 insect, a native came to my assistance and undertook the task in his own way ; 

 gathering two of the elegant blue convolvulus flowers around which the moth had 

 been fluttering, and holding one in each hand in an inviting position, he cautiously 

 approached or followed the insect to tempt it within his reach. The active but 

 stealthy movements of the young and scantily-clad islander, as he pursued his shy 

 game over the plains; the seducing attitudes he assumed, and the insinuating man- 

 ner in which he presented the flowers to the moth when opportunities offered, afforded 

 a very ludicrous scene. Although the exertions of my entomological friend were 

 at this time fruitless, I have often seen the plan he adopted successfully employed 

 by other natives ; the hawk-moth, approaching the proffered blossoms, protrudes its 

 long proboscis, which is seized with the fingers and the creature secured. 



