the largest taro patches and extensive patches of bananas. The east end is largely covered by an open stand of coconuts with fringe of Scaevola, Tournefortia, Fala (Pandanus), Puapua, noni, and Pemphis and underfoot maile and brake ferns, bunch grass, mat grass, tolo (beach runner with yellow flower and bur), Boerhaavia and dodder. But as one goes W. it gradually becomes moister and denser with fewer coconuts and patches of Buka, Kou (kauoa), puka waka, fau (a fiber plant), and (Tiale) a gardenia-like plant with ovate leaves and sweet smelling flowers. The undergrowth adds birds-nest fern, sensitive plant (purple flowers, herb legume with twice piniate leaves, and such weeds as burr grass, nut grass, the "Honolulu weed", the purple flowered, dandy-lion-like weed and a tall mint-like weed called A few small Papaga trees (called ese). Among the insects, which are quite different from those of Hull and Sydney, although including some of the species found there, were caught:- a fuscous winged leafhopper on tiale, noni, etc., large and small Drosophilid flies, day mosquitoes (Aedes scutellaris), pale yellow ants on noni, long antennied gray moth, smaller dalichopodid fly on leaves, house flies, dragon- flies - small brown and small red (two sexes), and large brown and large red (two sexes of another sp.), red brown butterfly (as on Hull etc.), purple butterfly, Tournefortia moth and its caterpillers (larger and different ap- pearing), large brown leafhoppers on noni (and Scaevola), anthribid beetle (noni), black ants, fuscous ants, red ants, green long-horn grasshopper, large bluish fly, smaller fuscous winged fly. Large Sarcophagid fly on maile fern. The banana patches are artificially built up with coconut husks to con- serve moisture. The patches of pulaca and talo are artificially dug and contain a small shrub with linear-lanceolate leaves and yellow flowers (No. 59) and a glass (50). Here one finds the dragonflies common, with their larvae in the water and dry skins on the grass and taro stems. Also slender, delicate "darning needles" with blue and yellow-green bodies; small pale and light