L.28.P.9. The Needhamman man turned up some after we arrived. He is the old fellow I gave a lift to on the truck coming out from Inoway the other day. Rain started just as we arrived. A miserable place, the prominent shepher of the forest description; moisture water is a long way away. However I've rigged up a tent fly to catch rain water. I prevailed on 4 carriers to try their luck with 10 mmx traps and a steel trap a piece. Tomorrow however will be our first big day of trap-setting. Well, things will look far brighter in the morning. They always do. I have a good heap of spruce trees already down nearly 100 lbs of rice, so we are pretty safe from starvation. Mar.8 Mon. Kopi policeman in the morning- were luna. The traps set yesterday caught 1 Petters (correct grape), and 2 Stonerups. The latter are quite distinct from those at the 1500 ft level, being much smaller. These cactus, the beautiful, black, soft-jawed Phalognus sericus brought in by local from a few hundred feet above camp. He states that the old females + the juveniles were inside & hollow tree, the adult male he outside (#8 3682-4). We are busy now getting the mass of the traps out, and if this morning's catch can be taken as an indicator we should have a big crop of specimens tomorrow. Today all but two of the carriers (who had few) took at traps; and one regular trap put in them; + I put out mine- &c. There must be quite a large native population here. Great quantities of the forest has been cut off the hill- sides to make room for gardens, so that at first glance the valley has a quite civilized appearance. The rostrum of the underside of the tail mentioned in connection with the gray crocus (L.27, P.19) is in Sericus definitely of sex characters; the male is rough, the female smooth.