lined with Pemphis. Caught coconut Ortalid fly, small brown cricket, fuscous winged Trypetid on fern, Drosophilids on Ficus, purple winged leafhoppers, craneflies. Saw large gray (Pemphis) moth. Blue, white spotted butterflies, large brown leafhoppers on noni, small green dolichopodid fly, red ants and leaf mines on Scaevola. The puapua leaf roller is absent. Quantities of small green tailed lizards, up to 6" long, and a larger dark drab lizard. Land and hermit crabs plentiful. A few taro patches - obviously artificially dug. Undergrowth thick and many fallen and rotting coconut palms. East reef about 50-60 yards wide, rough reddish coral, moderate surf, despite a perfectly smooth sea. Conglomerate and sand beach, narrow, steep, 10-14 feet high, with Scaevola and Tournefortia close down. Island very narrow in places, not over 150 yards. Caught large longicorn beetle on Buka. Mosquitoes eat you up when you stop. Across a shallow, partly dry channel, water 10 yards wide, and 100 yards further on another, wider one, the water flowing. A little further on another shallow channel. Multiforma essentially like Matagi, but drier and more open. To N.W. end and back across lagoon to Takaofu in the canoe. Had long conference with chief, Magistrate and secretary. Obtained permission to sleep ashore and was assigned to an unoccupied house containing bed. Every comfort provided - good swim in lagoon and fresh water rinse in Magis- trate's own wash house; mats provided by Magistrate and young coconuts to eat. Still one could not help feeling like a state prisoner. Policemen to wait on me, and after pressing plants and putting away insects before a large audience, a long conference with chief and Magistrate, who asked me all sorts of questions about myself, Hawaii, the government, the war, politics, inventions, etc. Policemen kept guard all night.