small vent with a deep crack leading from it to the N.E. by E. (the general direction of the main flow). Back to camp, travelling W. by compass at the lower level and reaching the trail at 1650 feet. Down to tank at lower end of taro patch for water. The cicadas start chirping about sundown. They sound like a jump-spark wireless, with the cadence of the automatic telephone when the line is busy. The mosquitoes arrive in thousands at about the same time and a few mintues later the sphinx and other large moths begin to fly past. Monday, May 5, 1924. Stayed near shelter because of intermittent showers and collected about taro patches, and on food plants until party arrived, 10 to 11 A.M. Two varieties of sugar cane are grown by the natives, primarily for thatch, although the stalks are chewed with relish; as follows:- 1. Smaller stalk, 2 to 3 1/2 cm. dia., joints 12-14 cm. long. Height (without asssel) 9 feet #; color plum purple-brown with touch of green (approxi- mately color of "red"-tan shoes); darker and a trifle more reddish near nodes, and with 1/2 cm. white band at upper end of internode. Buds al- ternate, nodes rather greenish with purple dots. 2. Larger variety:- Up to 5 cm. diam., joints shorter, average less than 7 or 8 cm. but some 10 cm. long; deep purple color, with 1 cm. white "pubescent" band on upper edge of internode. Scorpion, ants, roaches, black beetle in rotten logs. Light yellow leafhopper on breadfruit leaves (also other plants). Lemon yellow and brown long conic landshell abundant under every rotten stick at 1300'. Larger and smaller flat spp. also occur. Large dark brown wingless roach under damp rotten logs. Also millipedes, leaches, red mites and orobatif mites. Narrow fronted house fly a great pest-persistent, "sticky," and abundant. They are much more of a nuisance than the comparatively scarce day mosquitoes (Aedes pseudoscutellaris). A number of small black fleas in native hut.