L. 27. P. 17. Last night the two + do the climbing; hoping that the bats might have returned. We leaned two poles against the tree + tied on a cross piece just below the hole so that the boy might sit them off and his hands free. He was tape + I passed him up the butterfly net + matches + matches on the end of a rush-ape. He announced that he could feel the bats. The nephew did not bring them out (probably my draft to make it penetrate), so I sent up a stick with which, hold the net over most of the opening, he fiddled + rattled about till hatched. First one, a minute later the other flew out into the net. There were no more. They turned out on inspection to be the pointed-eared bat of which we have caught quite a few—almost always two (mother + child). In this case it was mother + daughter. And we knew that the daughter could fly well because she flew away yesterday. After lunch went to see new traps of Aia & Tainards. I find that (probably inspired by the capture of Hydrusps this morning) they have transferred their entire line of traps to the bottom of a deep ravine in the front, with a mill of water flowing in it. I suppose their line is quite half a mile long. Some very dry trees are growing almost at the water edge. A bit later I went out with Lisa to see the steel traps. The Hydrusps was caught in one I set for him the other day as a demonstration. His live ptes all on the place, up hill & down dale—simply miles of it seeming. This O. Oct. 19. In spite of heavy rain after midnight, a good catch came in; chiefly from careful nets + whilst I think : Another lazy & Phaeoglyde murex, another 7 fiftamps elegans, one melampus nero, three m. levisper, and 3 Pterus murex. Another stray catch—was one of th