plants: - A hau-like tree, pandanus, noni, a common sedge, tall abaca-like tree with purpl red fruit and small white blossoms, grass (the same spp. ap- parently as that elsewhere, but ranker) the Boerhavia-like plant (more luxuriant) and green sown on the dirty pools or open water, which is, however, fresh and used for drinking. On rotten logs and manure (from the pigs and three horses on the island) grow bracket fungi and small white toad stools. A very little convolulus-like vine was seen. A leafless parasitic vine grew about the bases of the coconuts and over other plants resembling Vigna. INSECT LIFE OF NASSAU. The number of species of insects are not many, but of individuals there are quantities. A small brown fly and green Psilopus (Dolichopodids) abound the leaves of plants. Everything is covered with ants; moderate size, black, and reddish, and a small reddish-fuscous species; they are on all the plants, in rotten logs, under fallen coconuts, under rocks, among roots; in short, everywhere, and in great numbers. Spiders, the same spp. apparently as on Wake, have their webs abundantly from branch to branch. There are also one or two other spp. of spiders. Scale insects, small mealy-bugs, salmon-pink and white, are on leaves and roots. Red-brown dragonflies dart about the marshy pools, about which are found small nemocera flies. Tiny black (Barbo dos) day mosquitoes Alces soutellars are from some. Numerous leafhoppers in the grass and always on noni leaves, or two or more spp. The leaves of the Seodeola are abundantly mined and on them I can find a small black Agromyzid, a pale yellow crane fly, and a small brown dioro- have 1Lipdoptere; the larvae of any of the three might caused them. The white Wake) is present, but not abundant. There are a few smaller moths, but no butterflies: One or two spp. of cockroach, one being dug from rotten logs. The house fly (the narrow-fronted sp.) is not only abundant but a pest, being ```