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spots (potipoti).
Blue butterfly with white spots (kawapule).
Small red brown butterfly (kitikitilangi).
Brown spider (mangamanga).
Sow bugs (popolanga or popolunga).
Small green beetle (punupunu).
Ants - 3 to 6 spp. A large red sp., a moderately large black, ditto red,
small fuscous, and the long antennaed "crazy ant". (all called "leo").
Small tettigid grasshopper (kalewalewa).
Mosquitoes (aedes scutellaris) (namu).
Large brown moth (like pemphis moth on Wake).
Same green Psilopus (Dolochopodid fly).
Hermit crabs (unga#). Land crabs digging holes in ground (kaipla = manua
taria).
Large red-orange land crab (pekakula) (it lives under rotting coconuts).
The lime ovens (hemupunga) in which coral rock is burned to make lime for
house construction are nearly open pits.
Watched a small boy making fire with two sticks made of puapua tree. The
under, flat piece with the groove in it is called "lakau". In this groove a
short, pointed stick (aka) is rapidly rubbed back and forth, the fine dust from
the scraping quickly smoking from the heat of friction.
In the shade of a coconut leaf thatched hut an old native was plating
baskets (ola) the process being called eola. The fine weave baskets from
split coconut leaf are "ola," the coarse woven ones, in which the whole leaf
is used, being called "kete." A fan is called ili (in Tahiti Tai ili).
Hat = pale, usually made of pandanus loaf (lau wale). A lavalava is called a
paleu. A fine weave mat = panga (Tahiti piui), coarse mat - takapau, (of
cocoanut leaf) takapau = (Tahiti paua niu). If found the cocoanut maggot fly
on a birds-nest fern (under which circumstances it would be called "lango patia").