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Returned to the schooner about 3:45 as it was commencing to rain.
Pressed plants etc.
Mr. Beck brought a small crumpled specimen of orchid, which I pressed,
but did not give a plant number.
Wednesday, August 13, 1924.
Namuka-i-Lau, east end and Ethnological data at village.
Ashore at 6:45. Across ridge to bay on S. side and followed trail east
through an extensive grove of coconuts. Collected an Astelia-like plant
(No. 473) with white flowers and blue fruit, growing abundantly with Piper,
etc. under the coconut palms.
Insects out in force. Quantities of butterflies and moths:- Hypolemmas
bolina, males, blue and white female and (rare) yellow female; Euploea;
Vanessa cardui; a large yellow brown sp.; Lycaenidae (