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 A beautiful girl lived in a cave near Kala'e. She was visited every night by a lover who left before daylight. The girl wasted away worrying about him. A kabuna advised her to attach a piece of white tapa to a wart on her lover's back. In the morning shreds of tapa helped to trace him to this hill, where a large caterpillar (pe'elua) was sleeping. The priest ordered the people to collect wood and set fire to him. His body broke and a myriad small caterpillars (or army worms) scattered over the plain, infesting them. [Place names of Hawaii, p. 198]
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