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degree to the assumption of most of the camp duties by the ladies 
of our party, affording us every possible opportunity to prosecute 
our work. 
The insect collections have been largely identified. Dr. Henry 
Skinner has studied the Lepidoptera; Mr. Frank Mason, the Cole- 
optera; Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, the Orthoptera; Mr. H. L. Viereck, the 
Hymenoptera; and Mr. W. L. McAtee, the Hemiptera; while Mr. 
E. T. Cresson, Jr. is at work upon the Diptera. Several new spe¬ 
cies have been found and quite a number formerly known from 
south of the Mexican border have been definitely added to the fauna 
of the United States. 
The plants have been largely indentified by the late Stewardson 
Brown and a report on them is in preparation. As Mr. Law is en¬ 
gaged upon a comprehensive study of the birds and mammals of 
the Chiricahuas the report upon them has been left entirely to him. 
HAWAII REVISITED. 
By Henry A. Pilsbry, Sc. D. 
At three o’clock one morning last July, I was leaning over the 
rail of a Pacific steamer. Let me hasten to add that I am a “good 
sailor”. It was the excitement of again seeing Hawaii and meet¬ 
ing old friends there which robbed me of sleep. Low in the south¬ 
ern sky hung the Southern Cross, and below it a brighter “vari¬ 
able” star, the Molokai Light, against the dark Molokai mountains 
My errand was to take part in the first Pan-Pacific Scientific 
Conference, held in Honolulu during August, and about twenty 
of my shipmates were delegates from museums and universities of 
the United States and Canada. Having seen that the islands 
were still there I turned in, and when I woke again we were off the 
south coast of Oahu. 
Except where irrigated, the shore zone is rather arid. The ap¬ 
proach to Honolulu is past austere gray tufa cones, Koko Head, 
Diamond Head, formed by eruptions of volcanic ashes, the final 
explosions of the fires below. A thin green line of algarobas 1 bor¬ 
ders the shore and straggles up the gullies, with groups of coco 
palms here and there. With further acquaintance the lower zone 
1 An introduced species of mesquite (Prosopts). 
