the beach. They do not look ancient. Captain Senbeck suggests that they, like the similar ones on Enderbury were built by the early guano diggers. True, some, (many) of the platforms are overgrown by large Scaevola bushes as are most of the "ala-nui"-like paths of coral slabs, which run here and there. But so too is the round the island built up trail at the S.E. side of the isalnd where it has been unused for 6 or 8 years. There are lots of these platforms along the N.W. side of the island. I having seen 8 or 10 in open spaces and there being goodness knows how many more in Scaveola thickets. Roll 22:2 Tafono tree (No. 35) near first clump of house ruins, looking W. Roll 22:3 Another house site, 10' x 8' with one slab 3' high, showing proximity to beach (about 60 yards). Looking N.W. The north beach consists of a high, gradual slope of sand, 18 to 22 feet, topped by sandstone pebbles and broken coral. The reef is flat and from 50 to 60 yards wide, the edge rough with a moderate surf. The tallest trees (Buka and Tafano) grow in the lower ground behind the beach barrier; some are 15 to 20 feet higher than eye level (30-40 feet high), but not higher than the coconut palms on the lagoon shore. Patches of Trilbubus, with greenish, fat caterpillars (probably of the red-brown butterfly), leafhoppers, small spiders, red, and pale brown ants. Took wood specimen (No. 4) of Buka tree, and some leaves fully 14' long. Later found flowers. On it were delicate little white moths, long brown spiny legged grasshoppers, dolichopodid (Psilopus) flies, pale ants, black ants. The round the island trail cuts across the N. and N.E. side of the lagoon, in places crossing arms and bays on raised dykes. On the east is a dense thicket of trees - Buka, Kou and Tafona with some Tournefortia and Scaevola toward the lagoon, then a nearly unbroken mass of Scaevola to beach ridge where there are a few Tournefortia trees.