According to Murphy, et al. (1954), Hague in 1862 made the 
first scientific visit to Canton and the other islands of the 
Phoenix group, but it is unlikely that he made more than a few 
casual observations. E.H. Bryan, Jr., of the Bishop Museum in 
Honolulu, Hawaii, visited the Phoenix Islands in 1924 and evi¬ 
dently was the first parson to observe and collect samples of the 
flora and invertebrate fauna in a scientific manner. Concerning 
records of the insects and other land arthropods of these islands, 
the majority were provided by Van Zwaluwenburg (1932, 1941, 1942, 
1943, 1948 a&b, 1952 a&b, 1955). Many other individuals have 
furnished collection records, species descriptions, and/or notes 
on the insects and related fauna of the Phoenix Islands. These 
contributors are Amerson (1968), Beardsley (1965), Berland (1942), 
Bonnet (1950), Browne (1940), China (1956), Edwards (1961), Frick 
(1952, 1953), Hardwicke (1965), Hardy (1950), Izzard (1959), Kaszab 
(1951), Kelsey (1943), Kohls (1966), Kulzer (1957), Maa (1962, 
1963, 1968), Oman (1943, 1948), Pemberton (1944, 1952, 1953), 
Perkins (1931), Shiroma (1966), Timmermann (1954), Usinger (1944) 
and Werner (1965). The combined efforts of all of the above have 
provided a list of 142 species of insects known to have been 
collected on one or more of the Phoenix Islands. The following 
annotated list summarizes th+s- data providing a list of all taxa, 
the islands of collection of each taxon, and references to all 
known published records of collections for each taxon. 
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