schooner bore N. 3° W. Turned S. up a gently rising ridge. Large metallic green Buprestid. Caught large brown Dixiid. Long brown lizard sunning itself on top of prostrate vines, which thickly carpet the open spaces. Struck yesterday's trail and followed it up (S.) to elevation of 2400'. General direction of trail S.E. to S.S.E. Passed a little seep hole of good water, elevation 2200'. Dug some fig wasps out of fruit of Plant Spec. 123. Saw small rat - dark gray above, lighter beneath. Returned to hut; pressed plants and put away insects. Mosquitoes exceedingly bad directly after sunset, continually until daybreak. Saturday, May 3, 1924. Got a fairly early start after a most uncomfortable night despite not, but had to take refuge in last little banana thicket hut because of heavy shower of rain. Saw a large brick-red bodied moth with red-brown wings - as large as a sphinx and hairy. Caught a large moth at water hole. Specimens of ear fungus at 2400', with small black beetles and mites on them. This lower rain forest is thickly carpeted with the fua sega vine (95) which covers all the bare ground and most of the lower parts of the trees. The vine continues on up to about 2500' elevation. The forest at 2900 feet is quite different. Much more dense, no open spaces, no bananas or lau fau. The trees are moss covered with large leaved monocot vino (fui - 115) and ieie (Freycinettia - called pauono). Tall tree ferns, wine palms, lobelias, tall monocot grass-like plant with rough, ribbed lanceolate leaves and apical compound racemes of small berries (125). Under- growth chiefly ferns, lily-like monocots and orchids, avaava aiku (116), small trees, shrubs and herbs. Two compositae -, apparently weeds, continue, especially along trail, but also elsewhere. Trail rises to maximum elevation of 2950' and then drops gradually around high running the W. shoulder of a hill to the S. by E. coming out upon a ravine from N.N.E.