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cover* Perhaps this mantis is on a diet* We wont up into the rain and home 
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for lunch. 
August 13* 
Sunday* Wont out to Goulding hoping to do some typical reef scenes* 
The compressor motor refused to start* I worked with it for an hour or 
more. Had lunch, took siesta, tried some more. Gave up, dove down and 
picked up the camera. All this time the sun had been shining and the day 
being wasted. Tried the motor one last time* It began to run, and worked 
fine. Jumped into the water post haste, and had possibly five minutes of 
sun. Clouds remained for the rest of the day. 
August 14. 
Rained most of the night, and this morning the sky was leaden. We 
decided to devote the day to looking for specimens to use on experiments 
with anemones. The weather people announce that we are in the midst of an 
easterly wave. A bad time it chose for coming along. We may load up with 
subjects and have no light for taking their pictures* 
Wo ran out to the location and started from there in a methodical 
search for other stomatopods like the one in the den in our cage. We 
carried the anchor and pulled the boat along all morning, checking every 
sand mound and every hole. And we found not a single big mantis. I picked 
up two or three small ones from old conohs, but none of the species we 
wanted. It is a mystery that I should have stumbled upon tvc of them — 
