Saketai separated from Motuloa by a 30 # yard channel. Typical. Kaivave by a similar channel, a little wider. Ofuna and Manumea lie close together and separated from Olokal(n)ga by a 100 yard chanel. (Typical). Close to the latter is Palea with its fine grove of tall Puka vai. Roll 36:1 Palea, showing the puka vai trees, a nesting place for frigates, looking N.E. Rowed back across lagoon. Got things and aboard the schooner. Made tracings of map of Fakaofu for the Magistrate and chief Veniale. Saturday, April 5, 1924. Ashore at 6:45. Visited the Magistrate and presented him with the map. Walked up along reef to Fonua fala, a distance of about 1 1/8 mile. It being 2/3 full tide the water was more than knee deep all the way but no- where waist deep. Walked length of island along one of the 3 well cleared paths, making a systematic study of the insects of the different plants. Maile fern:- (also some on Brake fern):- small brown cricket, large and small fuscous ants, small gray flies, jumping spiders, large brown leafhopper, small fuscous leafhopper, gnats, small gray moth, brown moths, greenish chironomid, small dark brown wasp, green dolichopodid fly, fuscous winged trypitid (or ortolid) fly, pale yellow ants, small pseudoscorpion. Buka:- large brown longicorn beetle, yellow flies and green dolichop fly. Noni and kou:- large brown leafhopper, fuscous leafhopper, doluhopod and drosophilid flies, yellow ants, fuscous ants. Flying about:- Brown moths, dragonflies - 2 spp., mosquitoes, muscid flies. Chased a large chameleon lizard (called moku) down a papaya (esi) tree.