40 Oomsis late after dinner (about 10:30). This was one of a number of perhaps more than one species of bat feeding at that late hour, on a then bright starry but moon- less night, about the top of a tall Octomeles tree. The assumption is that the bats were attracted by flower-frequented insects. Octomeles has viscid small green flowers which are not sweet to my taste. The bats were also flying around a neighboring tall pink-flowered Evodia sp. Van has the very good total of 132 mammal specimens of 26-27 spp. for 18 days of work for this camp. Turnover of native personnel limited my collecting of diurnal insects, of which the best results are in dragonflies. Three or four nights of light trapping yielded little variety and was therefore discontinued. The best re- presentation in other than Odonata is perhaps in bugs and beetles (the latter largely weavils). During the morning John Womersley and Lorrie Edwards drove out with mail, and a set of Mt. Wilhelm aerial photos and a stereoscope which Lorrie had carried over by air from the Forests Department in Port Moresby for our examination. The mail contained the first four of my Kodachrome pictures, forwarded direct by Willoughby's of New York; results very satisfactory as far as examined; some overlapping of frames on one roll; generally a little on the underside in exposure. I have good aerial shots of Keglsugl airstrip and the slopes above. The air pictures of the Forest Dept. show very clearly the route from Keglsugl strip to Lake Aunde (8300-11,400 ft.). Van's herps for the camp number 64, comprised of 5 snakes, 25 frogs, 18 lizards, 10 geckoes, 2 turtles, and four toads (the latter Bufo marinus, the introduced giant toads?). Perhaps 8 spp. of frogs; most the lizards medium- sized brown skinks from the mammal traps; geckoes of 3 spp. (big banded tailed, house sp., and another). Spent all afternoon and to 10:30 at night on figuring for the Mt. Wilhelm flights and carrier transport, after finishing lists of stores needed for the two months divided into two camps. Many weights can only be estimated (we weighed the boys this afternoon and found them ranging from 129 lbs. (the cook) to 100 lbs. (Van's Liklik). But the pattern is clear. My total weight on present figuring is 4157 lbs. in personnel and supplies to be flown in to Keglsugl from Goroka. We still have to learn what a single-engine Otter will be allowed to carry. Qantas men have indicated to John Womersley that it should be 2000-2200 lbs. But the civil aviation authorities will set the weight. Operational tables for the Otter at 8300 ft. (the altitude of Keglsugl) are not available in New Guinea, and have been requested from Australia. If necessary, John Collins will walk the boys over the mountains from the end of the jeep road at the head of the Goroka valley. This road goes about 30 miles from Goroka, and to within a day's walk of Keglsugl. John has offered to do this. We do not wish to make more than 2 flights to Keglsugl. The date for the lift in to Keglsugl is set with Qantas for Saturday June 6, weather permitting. A change of weather here tonight. Showers began about 9 o'clock. Now, at 11, rain is pelting down steadily. Monday, May 4. Last night's rain must have lasted until after midnight. Fine today, but mist on the mountains all day above about 3000 ft. A slight shower about 3 pm here at Gurakor.