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were evidently very mmieroiis at that time. Descriptions (46, p. 96) are 

 given of five kinds as follows: 



1st. Brown, with a white stripe on tlie back and white belly. It grows to the 

 largest size, fully 2j^ inches long and one-quarter inch tliick. It is very vora- 

 cious, and a single worm will strip a large plant, leaving nothing but the ribs. 



2nd. Gray, with a brown back of a bright, shining appearance ; it does not 

 grow as large as No. i. It is the regular cutworm that seems to enjoy nothing 

 but the juice of the stems, which it will often cut off when quite large and hard. 



3d. It is destructive as the former, and also like it in color and size, only 

 not bright or shining on its back. 



4th. Is bluish-gray, with head and tail white — rather rare. 



Sth. Mud-colored ; is the one that appears every year, and seems able to do 

 with less wet soil. It is not quite as voracious, nor does it attain the size of 

 the former ones, but still is very destructive. 



It is interesting to note that the cutworms were excessively abundant 

 on land that had been flooded for a few days. This observation agrees 

 with my experiences in North Queensland. The only explanation that 

 I am able to suggest is that flooding in some way interferes with the 

 natural enemies of these pests. 



A great impulse was given to the investigation of the Pacific fauna by 

 the coming of the Swedish Frigate "Eugenie" with a staflf of trained in- 

 vestigators. These scientists arrived in Hawaii in August, 1852 and though 

 their stay in the islands was short, they evidently improved the opportunity, 

 for among the insects collected were about twenty new species, belonging 

 to several orders. Unfortunately no record was made of their catches 

 except of the new species. These records were worked up several years 

 later — the Coleoptera by C. H. Boheman, the Orthoptera and Hemiptera 

 by Carl Stal, the Lepidoptera by D. J. Wallengren, the Hymenoptera by 

 A. E. Holmgren, and the Diptera by C. G. Thoin.son (49). 



The coming of the energetic student, Rev. Thomas Blackburn, in 1877 

 marked a new epoch in the history of systematic entomology in Hawaii. 

 Though his special hobby was Coleoptera, Blackburn collected all orders 

 of insects and published papers on most of them (67). The extent of 

 his scientific work during the six years of his stay is marvelous especially 

 considering that it was all done at odd moments whenever his strenuous 

 duties to the Church would permit. Indeed, so abundant were his catches 

 that he kept almost a dozen specialists (principally in the British Museum) 

 busy describing his material, in addition to all the descriptions that he 

 himself prepared for the press. A glance at the bibliography (pp. ) will 

 give a suggestion of the extent of these labors. The following specialists 

 assisted him in publishing his material: Bormans (105) handled the Or- 

 thoptera; McLachlan (no, in, 138) helped with the Neuroptera includ- 

 ing the Odonata : White (71, 81, 88, 100) did part of the Hemiptera; 

 Butler (74, 90. 96, 106, 108), Meyrick (112, 122, 131) and Tuely (79, 80) 

 all worked on the Lepidoptera; Sharp (75, 76, 77, 78, 85. 93, 99, 119, 



