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My friend, Rev. Geo. Franc[[strikethrough]]h[[/strikethrough]]^[[k]], who collects moths and butterflies, says this has been a very poor season for collecting on Mt. Omei, both for moths and for butterflies.

Aug. 1. Collecting is poorer than usual on this mountain this summer, so I am glad that we can get away to Suifu a few days earlier than we expected to.

Yang Fong Tsang and Chen Gih Yuen go to the Si Gi Pin tomorrow to collect five or six days. This is a better collecting spot than this is. Lai and I will collect here. The carpenter is off salary, and doing some carpenter work instead of collecting for a few days.

Aug. 2. Yang Fong Tsang and Chen Gih Yuen have gone to the Si Gi Pin to collect 5 or 6 days. Lai is netting here at Shin Kai Si.

Aug. 3. Filled and labelled box no. 358. This number was probably skipped or overlooked at Yachow. 359-360 have already been filled and mailed to Shanghai.

Mr. Franck thinks that the fewness of lepidoptera here this year is probably due to the fact that last winter was an unusually severe winter. Also labelled box no. 361, insects.

Aug. 4. Last night moths were coming to the lanterns fairly well until about eleven o'clock, when a very strong, cold wind came up, with rain. That spoiled the moth collecting for the night.

The skinner Ho has malaria, but I am doctoring him.

It seems to me that Shin Hai Si on Mt. Omei is a very much poorer place in which to catch insects than it was a few years ago. I find it also nearly impossible to find wild mice to trap. In the future I shall collect here only when there is no better place to collect that I can get to.

Aug. 5. Many of the moths that we are catching at Shin Kai Si this summer are quite small. They average as small as I would expect at the altitudes of about 13000 to 15000 feet. Some of them seem to be very interesting. Moths that we used to catch in 1920-1922 do not seem to appear at all now.

Aug. 6. I tramped through underbrush and along sides of the mountain in search of holes of rats and mice, and found only two places resembling the haunts of wild mice. We are getting a fair catch of insects tonight. Secured a Dryanastes Mieux of which I am saving the skeleton.

Aug. 7. Secured a white-headed bird.

I am planning to have boxes made here by the carpenter for the specimens gathered on the Mupin trip so that the specimens can be mailed either here on the mountain or soon after reaching Suifu. I want to get in three or four weeks of collecting in the district south of Suifu, before the weather cools off. Filled and labelled boxes no. 362, 363, 364, all insects.

Aug. 8. The stars were so bright last night that the catch in night moths was smaller than usual.