House, of galvanized iron with sawn timber floor, about 28 ft. square and con- sisting of two rooms and a shuttered verandah. In the bigger room are most of the stores and Lionel and Rus sleep thereI have the smaller room for working, sleeping and space for my plant dryers. Our living space and Rus' work place are on the veran- dah. To be erected are the boys' fly , boys' small house, and galley. Old galvanized iron lying around will be useful for roofing. There is no palm leaf here. There would appear to be good primary forest not far below us on the slopes. Above us are old mine workings and steep slopes covered with mainly with fern. According to Stanley's geological map of 1915 (on loan from Gladstone) Mt. Sisa is 1300 ft. high. Gladstone says our camp, close below the summit on the north slopes, is at about 1150 feet. About NNE from camp is a good view down the forested valley of Ira (St. Patrick's) Creek to the coast at Boyu village. At considerably less than 1000 feet on the way up I saw either Castanopsis or Quercun in flower, and a dipterocary in fruit. A number of strange trees in flower or fruit, a second growth Weinmannia in flower (like the Mt. Dayman species). Stanley, in his report on Misima, gives native name of St. Patrick's Creek as ARA. (Stanley, Even R. Report on the geology of Misima (St. Aignan) Louisiade Gold- Field, Bull. Territory of Papua. No. 3, pp. 1-24, 5 figs., 3 maps, 1915). Tuesday July 17: Heard some rain on the iron roof during the night. Cloudy this AM but no rain all day. Variable wind. High clouds still travelling fast on SE wind. All hands rigging camp in morning, cutting trails (or rither, clearing old trails) in afternoon. I did some looking around and caught some insects. An Ornithoptera of these levels very different from any we saw in the D'Entrecasteaux. Moths caught at the light last night seemed mostly quite different, too. Caught a small, slender skink and saw three other spp. this afternoon. Two young boys from the Methodist Mission on the coast brought up an apparently half grown gray cuscus (Phalanger) with black dorsal stripe. Rus says different from any collected by us so far. On Sunday, in the main drive of the old Kulumalia Mine, Rus collected five small bats (Miniopteris and Hipposideros), the latter perhaps dif- ferent from any of our collection (narrow ears). The only bats known from the island are a Pteropus, an endemic Kerivoula, and a Rhinolophus. A very clean, bald-headed old native from one of the north coast villages (Gulewa), shown Rus' small paintings of mammals (only mammals already known from our general area, unfortunately) recognized the cuscus we already have, Petaurus, most of the bats, Rattus, Pogonomys and Hydromys. Did not know bandicoots or Doctylopsia. Rus suffering with toothache. Lionel somewhat troubled by a red lump on his tummy which might be a cyst (has had it for months , he says). All the boys on a 10/- per month increase in wages as of today, making a total of 35/- or about 4 dollars a month. Gesture in appreciation of three months of good ser- vices. We have one dud, the sipoma-infected Kwilskwila, who should have been paid off in Samarai, but in the rush of business in the few days we were there I forgot to see to it. Galuwina replaced the above Dipoma today as insect boy. Wednesday July 18: Another fine day. Partly cloudy morning but not a drop of rain. Quite cool last night; was not really warm under one blanket. 72 F. at 7.30 pm tonight. Misima is noted for sandflies, which someone long ago said infested the whole island. I did not feel at Bwagoaia. Up here, however, they are quite a nuisance in the evening. Botanized approximately past Gladstone's lake mine to the bed of Ara Creek. Not much more than ten minutes walk from camp. Steep slope from the mine to the Creek. Creek small there, not more than 1/2 mile from its head. Bed much altered years ago by miners working gold. Saw several yabby-like crustaceans in the pools. Had good hunt- ing for plants. A number of interesting things included a very common new genus. Collected a number of mosses, some of them normally high on trees species high on trees, but here growing on the logs og trees downed in the cyclone of 1952. Nothing in 90 traps last night. Rus, out jacking, saw nothing. Lionel shot two Phalangers orientalis (a gray and a yellow) and saw Nyctimene and a bat which he thinks