PACIFIC SCIEIITIFIC INF0mi4TI0N CENTER 
BERNICE P. BISHOP MUSEUM 
Honolulu^ Hawaii 96819 • Telephone 855-951 
August 19, 1964 
Bob Sundell, 
Division of Birds, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington 25, D.C., 
Dear Mr, Sundell: 
In the rush of the afternoon on which you called here 
asiing about the spiders known from Kure atoll, I completely 
for got an article by Drs. George D. Butler, Jr, and Robert 
J. Usinger titled "Insects and other arthropods from Kure Island, 
which appeared in the Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological 
Society for 1962, pages 237-244# 
I enclose a series of photocopies of these pages, which 
includes spiders on pages 238-239. 
Sa:getting your address from Dr, Ely, I gathered that 
you were getting this information for some Coast Guard personnel 
either on or who had been on Ktire, Since a list of just the 
names would mean little to that person, unless he were an 
expert on arachnology, I suggest that you send me his address 
and I will try to get sufficient description about each of 
the spiders listed so that there would be a chance of his 
being able to associate the name with the specimens he has seen 
on Kure, I believe that the spider experts in Bishop Mxoseiim 
would be willing to do tliis service, particularly if there were 
a chance of their getting a look at some of the specimens found 
there. 
IWien you asked about what spiders were found in Hawaii, 
I failed to understand that you were interested in those on 
Kure until just as you were leaving, and by that time I had 
forgotten that Butler and Usinger had listed the Kure species. 
lours very sincerely. 
