237 made in 14 film off the "Mosquito" Island. Here, very fortunately, the Res. Mag. from Sam araí happened to be stopping en route in the govt launch to land a patrol officer to collect taxes. He discussed my predicament with the Dist. Res. Mag. who had a letter from me regarding the licenses for my assistants, and kindly countenanced the "breach" tell- ing the Captain they could continue shooting until I arrived. I directed Atkinson (A.R.M) to hold up all collecting until I could ex- plain matters. This gracious act on the part of Mr. Lyons, who took entire responsibility, enabled Charlie and Vuga to continue shoot- ing from Monday Jan 21 until Friday Jan 25th when I arrived with David on the AV "Velimani". When I went over the collection I found that in every case without exception, the male sign ☼ had been substituted for the female sign ♀ I made sure of this as I could not help but notice that the labels were wrong. Both the Captain and Charlie made this mistake consistently from the start. I changed every one when I entered the alcins in the field book and numbered them. Also - it is important to note that