BULLETIN 59, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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MOLOK AI ISLAND— Continued. 

 South Coast — Continued. 



Mr. John F. G. Stoke.s, of Bcrnice Piiuahi Bishop Museum, Honohihi, who iiided 

 in making tiic collection from Pukoo and Kalaeloa, has kindly furnished the following 

 notes on the conditions under which the specimens from those localities were obtained. 



The part of Molokai Doctor Duerden and I visited is steeply mountainous inland, fringed with a 

 narrow strip of level land along the shore. I could not tell you if the plain were raised coral reef, as 

 we did not investigate, but the surface is mountain wash. There are no streams to speak of, the water 

 in this island generally reaching the sea by means of springs at the sea line. However, no springs 



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Cojusi line of the south side of Molokai Island. The letters a to / indicate places where collections were made and are 

 referred to in the text; -^ and ,'/ indicate stations from whiclt (tfterations were eoiidncted, 



were noticed. There had been heavy rains just before our vi.-^it anil for the lirst few days the sua was 

 very dirty — probably from the surface wafh. 



The inclosed rough tracing is from the Hawaiian government map of 1897, the coast line being 

 denoted by lieav}- and the fringing fish ponds Ijy light lines Merely approximately and only for the 



