Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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Roll 54:2 Looking S.E. across high plateau from same spot. Note how much of the region is covered only by grass and ferns. The S.E. slopes of Dilli Moala are covered with large basaltic boulders. Crossed to high plateau. Stunted Scaevola bushes abundant on high plateau. Collected both red and brown weevils, and the aeneous bee on the leaves and white "half" flowers. Descended west side of "Center Ridge." Saw a wild duck over taro patches at foot. Correia brought some Hypolemnas bolina caterpill_ars and pupae, which he had collected in W. valley. Also a specimen of wild raspberry (330), which, according to Seeman, is Rubus tiliaceous Smith. Sunday, July 13, 1924. Ashore at 7:45 landing on W. side of bay. Followed up stream bed in floor of right hand valley, catching quite a number of butterflies, moths, small flies, leafhoppers, etc. Collected several yellow-green landshells, a large green leafhopper, and a rotund black Scarabaeid beetle on Ficus tree No. 331. Tree No. 332 is a host plant for hundreds of large Hypolemnas bolina caterpillars, the cucoons hanging in this and adjacent trees. Some of the trees of this species were badly eaten, the caterpillars preferring it to other trees. Noticed regarding the tree with the round flat "cheese"-like fruit that the fruit when ripe breaks up into six red seeds, which hang to the ovary, forming a wheel-shaped disk. Several good sized pools in the stream (which is as large as any of the streams on Oahu at a corresponding elevation), in which were small dark gray fish up to 10 inches in length. The large landshells - apparently only one species - are quite abundant at about 300 to 400 feet elevation, in the valley bottom on the leaves and