schooner and spent entire evening pressing plant specimens. Underway at 7:30, sailing W. Insects not abundant on lava flow, but species found closely associated to vegetation, with addition of certain Xyrophytic living forms. Friday, May 16, 1924. Off Felialupe Bay at daybreak. We were going to stop; but harbor too rough with heavy swell. S.E. along S.W. coast. Heavy surf piles in on Auto (Oouto) point with spouting horns sending jets of water and spray as high to twice as high as the 40-50' cliff face. Anasta hill (490') is a tree covered isolated mass, rising gradually on the W. from Auto (Oouto) point, steeply on S.W. and running in a ridge S.E. to a small knob N.E. of Alelai point. The people of Neiatu just beyond this point are reputed to be the best singers of all Samoa. The people of all this region on the W. end of Savaii are said to use the purest form of the Samoan language now spoken; many places having discarded the t for k and the ng for n. Spent morning putting away specimens, cutting more cotton for cigar box insect storage and plotting peaks on field copy of N.Z. (also N.G.) map of Savaii from U. S. Hyd. Chart 2921. Anchored at Salailua at 9:30. Ashore by 10:30. Took trail leading up to taro patches and spring, elevation 1100'. It runs N.E. to N.N.E. through quite a little area of coconut, cocoa and bananas. The region seems quite a lot moister than N. side, which agrees with statements of residents. Saw a number of blue-green and black and the russet-brown butterflies hovering about a compoiste weed, lau taeoti (No. 153). Up through an extensive native taro patch. When the natives asked me where I was going I gave them the Hawaiian word "puna" which turned out to be the same in Samoan - "puga." Above the taro patches one enters a fairly luxuriant rainforest with tree ferns, moss festooned trees and Freycinettia