far too lays for small bats. In any case not a bat hung up when I could see it to shut at sit, they plenty were flyig in the tunnel. We got sticks & knocked down 9- all alive & apparently Scoterius of a species larger than any there of the day before. Outside, soon spotted another red wallaroo bounding away. From Tom Bano we diverted to the town of Divine Banks - a quite important tin-mining center. We were intending to visit the Vulcan Mine. However, the Volcan, we were told had no tunnel but went down 1500 feet. So we saw that one up. We met an old miner who said "Bets! - Why there's bats in my tunnel? You can take them in your hand. We went with him, armed with forked sticks. He lit his carbide lamp - we went in. At about 200 feet he said "Healthy are". I could not use my stick in the confined space so I tried grabbing them or got all three of the cluster. They were Litho, Pipistrellus or Scoterius. In his pocket were "The Que" were Rhinolophus. I was able to seize two of them in the same way. Curtin was pretty mad but he managed to go to one more abandoned tunnel, while there seem to be scores, when we again took 4 Rhinolophus + 1 Pipistrellus. It rained to drizzle. We loaded locks east & for safety across all creeks. Reached Halletta after most shops had closed (at 5.15) but bought some tinned food & 3 loaves of bread. Then on in the mist & rain down the road leading to, Rainbow, but turned off on after Dennis fall road (all bitumen roads). Finally we turned again into the road "under construction" where Van had been taken 3 days earlier to the camp of the Main Roads Commission. We arrived by after dark between 7.30 & 8. Van reported terrific rain all the time he has been at the road construction camp at Walton Hill Range. They had had 20 inches of rain in 3 days. He had so far taken a Urohyops & several Rattus asiaticus, most of the camp people were away for the week end, so he was starting to camp alone. He had not actually had to fix a meal yet however.