INSECTS OF SAMOA 



AND OTHER SAMOAN TERRESTRIAL 

 ARTHROPODA 



Although a monograph, or series of papers, dealing comprehensively with 

 the land arthropod fauna of any group of islands in the South Pacific may be 

 expected to yield valuable results, in connection with distribution, modification 

 due to isolation, and other problems, no such work is at present in existence. 

 In order in some measure to remedy this deficiency, and in view of benefits 

 directly accruing to the National Gjllections, the Trustees of the British 

 Museum have undertaken the publication of an account of the Insects and other 

 Terrestrial Arthropoda collected in the Seimoan Islands, in 1924-1925, by 

 Messrs. P. A. Buxton and G. H. E. Hopkins, during the Expedition of the 

 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to the South Pacific. 

 Advantage has been taken of the opportunity thus afforded, to make the studies 

 as complete as possible by including in them all Samoan material of the groups 

 concerned in both the British Museum (Natural History) and (by courtesy of 

 the authorities of that institution) the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 



It is not intended that contributors to the text shall be confined to the 

 Museum Staff or to any one nation, but, so far as possible, the assistance of the 

 leading authorities on all groups to be dealt with has been obtained. 



Tlie work will be divided into eight " Parts " (see p. 3 of wrapper), which 

 will be subdivided into " Fascicles.'* Each of the latter, which will appear as 

 ready in any order, will consist of one or more contributions. On the 

 completion of the work it is intended to issue a general survey, summarising 

 the whole and drawing- from it such conclusions as may be warranted. 



E. E. AUSTEN, 



Keeper of Entomology- 



British Museum (Natural History), 

 Cromwell Road, S.W.7. 



