rising to a high plateau, elevation 1000 to 1300 feet, with a few peaks 1500 or over. The most abundant creatures seen on the slope were large, dark red-brown millipeds, up to 1/2" diameter and 3" long. Common under damp fallen leaves. Caught a flat, black Lucanid beetle in a rotten stick, and what seemed to be its larva. Although wooded to the bottom and merging with the lowland forests, the trees are small and open for the most part, making walking fairly easy except for the tangle of stout vines about knee or waist high. The lower slopes in places are covered with boulders and rocks, from around which the soil has ap- parently been washed away, as the surface larger roots are in places quite vis- ible between them. Saw a woody climber with trunk fully 14 cm. in diameter. Caught a small microlepidoptera just color of bark it was on. My climb up the slope substantiates observations made from ship that the hills are more extensively but less thickly covered with trees. Especially on the upper ridges the trees are nearly all small, few exceeding 15 cm. in diameter and most of them 4 to 8. The undergrowth is open, composed for the most part of small (young) trees together with low ferns, a few grasses, and vines. Note many trees common both to the slopes and to the lowlands and much the same as those on Matuku. Apparently 1000 to 1200 feet does not make any great difference in the general vegetation. At intervals up the ridge are small tenaces or depressions like "trenches", but doubtless due to erosion. Some of the tenaces have piles of stones which look almost artificial. Freycinetia vine only above 800 or 900 feet elevation and even there only in patches and not thick. Small red-brown weevils on leaves. Found polistes nest at about 900'. Small landshells, which are to be found even in the lowlands are quite abundant on leaves and even trunks of trees at 800 to 900'. Very few large shells