106 Kotuni My insect collection from the camp is nothing to boast about. Had some good nights for the light trap and hand catching at the lights, the proceeds being nearly all moths. There is a good variety in the moths. Beetles and other night flying groups are very scarce. The weather has been so overcast, when not actually raining, that hardly any butterflies have been caught and not a single dragonfly or damselfly has been seen by me. Two hercules moths are in- cluded in the collection. Van's mammal total is 128 specimens of 29 species (ll marsupials, 13 rodents, 5 bats). New for the trip are: Pseudocheirus corinnae, Phascolosorex, Satanellus, Uromys anak, and (?) Murina. The mammal population is very similar to that of Pengagl on the slopes of Mt. Wilhelm. Herps from the camp run to the very big total of 947, the breakdown being 3 snakes (our first for the Bismarck Range), 27 lizards (all skinks), and 917 frogs (at least 12-15 species, thinks Van). Most of the herps were brought in by the local Kotun people and especially the boys (Chimbus and Mt. Hagens) of the timber cutting gangs. A substantial number of mammals were secured in the same way. There has been little success from bat shooting. Six of the total of 16 specimens of bats were collected yester- day afternoon by Van from a boulder cave about 1/2 mile up Iamahagi Creek and on the other side of the stream from camp. These were a Miniopterus. On a previous visit to the cave it was found unoccupied; a big deposit of wet guano on the floor. The Kotuns are said to have raided the cave before Van's first visit. The above remarks on insects have to be modified. My two boys having some slack time this afternoon, I sent them insect hunting with net and beating sheet. The proceeds included two damselflies of which the most conspicuous color is blue. There was some sunshine in the afternoon, none this morning. Thursday, August 20. Moved down to Goroka, leaving Kotuni about 10:30 and arriving in Goroka in about half an hour. Pleasant to be in the broad, sunny Goroka valley. On our last sight of the Kotuni mountains, the usual dark pall of cloud lay over them. As usual, we unloaded our cargo at Government Stores and we are staying in Buntings' guest house. Here we have some feeling of being civilized again. We were hospitably received by Jim Leahy Jr. at Kotuni, but the living there was terribly crude -- profanity of the silly sort, house overrun by dogs and cats, the whole establishment reeking of pigs. Nothing nice at all. After lunch I called on Mick Foley, who is acting as District Commissioner in the absence of Seale on leave. Pleasant, efficient looking, red-headed giant. My mission was to gain information on the Iufa area close to the west of Mt. Michael. The sum of the visit was that I gained very little additional to what I already knew. Foley showed me two sheets of an unpublished U.S. map or series of maps on this part of New Guinea based on World War II aerial photographs, also a sheet of the colored "U.S. Aeronautical Approach Chart." The unpublishd, nameless sheets may be for the purpose of revising the other. All were brought to Goroka by Dr. Carleton Gajdusek of the Kuru Disease project, with a request from Washington that they be corrected as far as possible and returned to Washington by Gajdusek, who returns to the States next month. Rest of day spent in reorganizing supplies for the next phase of our work. John and I will start on a reconnaissance of the Mt. Michael area tomorrow, leaving Van to collect at Danny Leahy's place on the lower Bena Bena River.