and banana plants. Caught a large, all yellow-brown coccinellid on orange leaf, and a small nitidulid beetle in one of the over-ripe oranges. These oranges are the sour kind, tasting and smelling like lemons, even though bright orange in color. There are also trees bearing large yellow shaddocks, 4 1/2 to 6 inches in diameter and a skin over 3/4 inch thick. Up the valley N.N.E. toward the peak. Saw the large olive-brown moth with orange, black spotted hind wing. Up the slopes of the north mountain mass. Much of the undergrowth in the native forest is made up of Piper (called in Samoa ava-ava-aiku), red pepper, ferns and ti. Bird nest fern occasional. Saw a ti plant with all white blos- soms, - most have at least half the corolla purple in color. Numerous large woody climbers, 4 to 5 cm. in diameter. Caught three brown crickets, male, female, and young, in leaf nest, made like a leaf roller caterpillar's, of a folded leaf held in place by a white web. The plume grass and accompanying weeds has invaded every unoccupied space and is crowding the native vegetation off the ridges into the valleys. The lowland plants have been pushed down and the upper forest up. Roll 50:3 Looking down the S.W. slope of Ngilligilli from about 500' elevation showing how the native vegetation has been pushed back by the plume glass. Mangrove swamp in bay at right, coconut groves to left. Roll 50:4 Forest covered upper slope of Ngilligilli looking N.E. from 600 to 700 feet. Climbed to the summit having to work around to the N.E. side to get up the last 100 feet. Found a Cycod plant on the ridge just below the summit. It is entirely surrounded by grass. Caught a Brenthid beetle on the leaves. Roll 50:5 Matuka Harbor from about 1100 feet elevation looking S. by W. " 50:6 The Cycad, looking W. (11476) " 51:1, 2,(3) Panarama of south end of island from summit Ngilligilli (1262') (51:3 double exposure). " 51:4 Looking east from summit.