Heavy rain prevented extensive collecting. Returned to Lea's office. Mr. Lea furnished me with a sample of the insect mounting gum which he uses with good success to glue specimens to points. Formula:- 1 beaker ground gum Arabac ) Mix wet. The latter requires plenty of water. 1/4 " " Fragoeanth ) Add a little carbolic acid. When in good solution pour into porcelain dish and allow to dry. Best preserved in dry state. When required add a little water. Borrowed a copy of Strassburger's Textbook of Botany from Mr. Campbell, plant pathologist, to take along on trip. Spent evening copying my field notes into this book from my daily journal. Friday, June 27, 1924. Clear, sunny morning; cleaned up my part of the"France" and put speci- mens and clothing out to dry. Up to library until noon. Afternoon field trip with Mr. Lea, Mr. Despeissus, Supt. of Agriculture, and Mr. C. Phillips, principal of Queen Victoria School for Fiji chief's sons, to a bat cave near Kalabu village. Took road toward Waimanu as far as a stone crusher. Followed up small stream along ditch trail to village of Kalabu, which is situated on a hill of soapstone, containing intrusions of blue stone which Mr. Despeissus called "Dyarito." To the west of the village the hill falls off percipitously into a large river bed. A tributary of this river running in from the east has cut a large arched cave through the heart of the hill, under the village. The cave is 30 to 40 feet high and 15 to 25 feet wide. The river running through, nearly fills the floor of the cave in places. We made our way well in, to a point at which a small cave enters through the roof. Here a number of swifts and bats were flying and beneath on the flat soapstone rocks was a deposit of guano (sample taken), made up very largely of beetle bodies. Small microlipidoptera were hovering about and a number of