containing turtle and bird bones (he said). Found one of the carved stones he had mentioned - an adze of shell, which he presented to the museum. Caught spider on ground and red ants eating copra. Mr. Shafer said that the coconuts between house and lagoon had been planted for the Levy Brothers Soap Co. by Ben Jennings about 1902-3. The tall patches toward east apparently antedated this, origin unknown to Shafer. The prevailing winds, he says, are from the N.E. and N. with winds from the S.E. a few days each year and occasional storms from the N.W. The rainfall principally in January, February, March and June. There is not enough rain however, to raise vegetables. After breakfast down W. and S.W. rim, collecting under Buka logs for landshells etc. White Buka moth, white micros, yellow flies, pale yellow- brown ant, black ant and Psilopus fly on Buka. Yellow and Psilopus flies thick on pua (= Tafono), also occasional pale ants and spring-legged, large green grasshoppers. It is Mr. Shafer's belief that the W. end of the atoll was swept by a tidal wave at some time previous, carrying coral rocks across the sandy rim. This is substantiated by the quantity of coral rocks, even large boulders on the S.E. rim, to be found clear across to the lagoon. He says there is good sand soil 3 to 4 feet down. A few blue and white butterflies and smaller red-brown butterflies, but not nearly as plentiful as on Sydney. The same is true of the moth - only the Tournefortia moth being at all abundant, except the micros. The landshells (one or two spp.) are only to be found on the dampest rotten Buka logs and then only ones or twos. Dead specimens are to be found in bunch grass roots and rich dirt in various places. Small red-brown earthworms in bunch grass roots and besides a small shiny oval black bug (Hemiptera). Several different types of grass on west side. Lepturus (bunch grass), velvety leaf bunch grass, maineanea grass, a low grass with a tall bottle brush-like flowering stalk, a