Rising Of The Palolo
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Letter to the Editor. 1 NO TICE that there recently has been reference in your columns to the rising of the Palolo, May I refer your correspondents to page 207 of Turner’s Old Samoa ? There they will find the fol lowing:— “If the last quarter of the moon is late in October Palolo is found the day before, the day of and the day after that quarter. If the last quarter of the moon is early in October Palolo does not come till the last quarter of the November moon.”
This rule works out pretty well in Samoa, and will probably do so else where, too.
Following out the above instructions, Palolo should be looked for in Samoa this year on the 4th, sth and 6th of Novem ber, and in Fiji on the sth, 6th, and 7th of November (local time in each case).
I am, etc.,
Cellarius.
Apia, Samoa, October 16, 1936.
Dr. J. S. Phillips, an entomologist, who has been carrying out research work in the British Solomon Islands, returned to Sydney by the Nankin from Rabaul, New Guinea, on October 21.