on Matuku and Moala. Conspicuous among the trees is a large Legume with brilliant scarlet petals, No. 349. I collected specimens of this in Matuku, not in flower, and saw one tree of it in Moala. Collected several other leguminous plants. Saw another leguminous vine with purplish-pink flowers (already collected). Insects and lizards fairly abundant in the moist tree covered pockets. Especially numerous are the little, large winged fuscous leafhoppers; and small moths in the grass. A great many weeds. Hypolemnas bolina fairly abundant, more so than other butterflies. Swarms of natives, mostly children, out on the reefs at low tide. Crossed the ridge at the next saddle north of the isthmus, by a very faint trail, descending into a valley filled with coconut palms. The entire ridge here is covered with plume grass, weeds and clumps of Pandanus, here and there. Grasshoppers very abundant, especially the large robust species. Yellow flowered composite (previously collected,) and the sedge, common especially on the lower slopes, together with small ferns, Sida and numerous weeds. Two or three species of moderately large moths- one dark gray, the other light brown with darker markings, common in the grass. Polistes wasps abundant and noisy. Several fairly large spiders - both the "umbrella-web" species and the long yellow and fuscous banded leged species with the creamy green abdomen very common. Back to the schooner along the sea beach. Encountered the same trees here as found on the Moala sea beach. The vine with white flowers and a brown "onion skin" capsule containing a fuzzy dark brown egg-shaped seed 3/8" x 1/2", common on trees and shrubs. Saw a species of butterfly having whitish wings edged with dark brown. Also a small yellow and brown species. The beaches are covered with dark slaty gray rocks and the bold cliffs