Field notes, v1442
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LIDICKON 1969 Aug 24 cont. at 1430 for a island lifting collecting trip starting on Manus Island. Took about an hour & the rest to set out more traps. Went to south forest ~0.8 mi. S by road & the Mai was down. Set line of 25 traps which alternated no traps & sharing except last trap which was a Mus Spec: bait banana. The sec additional line of 17 Shares, giving total of 42 traps - this report & 57 at other area 11½ mi. N making for grand total of 99 traps. After dinner Vince & D, Alan Wilson & Dan Beluche drove to S. Bump Camp when we arrived about 2020 to check our mist net string across the entrance. It contained 2 Hippotion galactitis, 1 H. diadema & 2 large holes. All the holes seemed to be on the right side for someone to run (no.3192) outside of the net heading in. Returned to Mai hom when I cleaned the 2 galactitis & started work on the diadema before going to bed after 2300. Aug 25 Vince had already gone with the Toyota when I got up at 0700. It turned out he had gone to check the net at S. Bump Camp. Besides another large hole in the net, we had 2 H. diadema, 1 H. galactitis & 1 Ascelllurus. After breakfast I most were too tangled to tell which way they were going, but Vince thought that at least 1 of the diadema was going in to the camp. After breakfast I checked the traps. At 11½ mi. N making I picked up all the traps. Caught 1