Roll 16:3 S.E. end of the Scaevola patch, taken from spot 20 feet N. of (16:2) and looking W.N.W. Pemphis in foreground. Highest tree is the lone Tornefortia. Numerous rats in open space between here and some Pemphis bushes to the S.E. Green caterpillar on Pemphis, but no cuccoons among the leaves as on Wake. The pemphis appers sickly. None in flower, and in places it is a bright orange color. Opposite S.E. dry bay of lagoon is patch of sickly kou, on which were spiders, white and micro moths, and small black flies. More pemphis along bank of lagoon arm. S.E. point a long bend of beach, resting in places on conglomerate which dips N. Beach backed by broad stretch of bare coral stones. Reef 125-150 yards wide. Surf breaking heavily. There are only a few dead Pemphis bushes near the beach at the point and the height is nearor 14 feet than 20 as given on the chart. Behind the barrier ridge are several dry, shallow basins, and a single small stunted noni plant. On it were yellow flies and black flies and a small flat brown beetle. Roll 16:4 A peculiar arm of the S.E. brackish pond (here dry), showing how the coral has been undermined and has fallen in; pond itself in distance. Looking E.S.E. While waiting for others to finish investigated fauna of bunch grass roots:- Tiny black ant, small brown roach, minute red mite, small brown beetle (found on noni) small brown mite (on cricket?), small brown leafhopper, sowbug, small brown spider, moderately large yellow-brown spider, pseudoscorpion, brown bird tick. Back length of lagoon in sail boat, stopping at Obs. point, where I con- tinued study of bunch grass root fauna near coconut trees:- Centipede, embyiid, mite, spider, sowbug, leafhopper, ants. Caught rat while sweeping bunch grass. Swept Ipomoea patch (which has purple flower):- leafhopper, 2 spp. black flies, small thrip spider. Back to schooner.