122 Kimi Creek - Goroka Monday, September 14. Left Kimi Camp after an early lunch and arrived in Goroka at 3 p.m. Distance 40 miles. The Goroka Valley has had rain recently and looks green, especially where the old grass has been burned. A heavy flowering was noted in the scattered young coffee plantations along the road. On the open grasslands at 5300 ft. in the Kimi end of the Goroka Valley, we stopped to collect a big Phaius of which about a dozen plants grew scattered over a small area. This showy orchid has brown, white and purple, delicately fragrant flowers. Ripening capsules may yield seeds to send to the U.S. Tuesday, September 15. Day spent in reorganizing collecting supplies (some to take to Kainantu, surplus back to Lae) and packing specimens. Got some letters written. Posted a package of palm seeds to the Fairchild Tropical Garden and a fourth lot of fragments of Ericaceae to Sleumer at Leiden for his revisional studies. Have sent Sleumer 83 specimens to date. Van and I to dinner with Inspector Frank G. Hoeter, OIC Police in Goroka. Frank an American by birth (Pago Pago) and a naturalized Australian. Has been in TNG 12 years, stationed at Port Moresby, Samarai, Madang, etc. Enthusiastic amateur naturalist interested chiefly in shells. Offers to collect insects and I will give him two spare killing bottles. Hoeter gave what I feel is the only authoritative information we have on the annual beetle visitation. He called up one of hos corporals to give information first hand. The beetle swarms seem to occur only in the Adaro Valley from about Bena Bena westwards. They are not in the Lufa or Waterbung valleys. Swarming takes place annually about time of the September moon. Begins with the first good rain, resumes after the next few rains. There was a swarm in Goroka during last week; another, and the last, is expected any time now. Adult beetles are called MONA (morna) in the Mowomi language of Goroka, the larvae are URAFE. One trick in the catching by natives is to tether a female with a bit of string to attract the males. In the rush of collection (the flight lasts from about 4:30 p.m. to dusk) the native women slap the beetles on to their hair, where their legs become entangled, and a good load is thus collected and carried. Wednesday, September 16. Enjoying the weather here at Goroka. This morning at 11:30 temperature was 78 F.; now at 6:30 p.m. it is 73. Partly cloudy; some little rain last night. Shipped to Lae for storage at the Dept. of Forests 12 boxes, etc. of specimens and surplus collecting supplies weighing 534 lbs. What we will take with us to the Kainantu area in the morning is loaded on the Land Rover and trailer. Called on Acting District Commissioner S.M. (Mick) Foley to talk about the Kainantu sub-district and got a pretty clear picture of what to expect in the Okapa area. Also a letter of introduction to A.D.O. A.M. (Gus) Bottrill, OIC Kainantu. Foley was ADO Kainantu for several years ending in 1958, but there are new developments with which he is unfamiliar. For example a new coffee planting venture in the Arau-Karanka area on the Markham fall, an area which offers promise for us in good virgin forest and a report of caves in limestone.