plants, among them Tournefortia, Pemphis, hau, Pandanus, Scaevola, tree legumes, the one with the red flowers (Totoya), the one with the ovate leathery leaves with obscure veins (Totoya) and No. 404; and several others collected. The yellow flowered composite (Matuku) prominent among the open coconut groves, and cultivated paths, to ether with a number of introduced weeds. Many of the same trees, shrubs and vines as on Motuku, Moala and Totoya. Saw the beach runner with yellow flowers and burrs. Roll 58:1 A family of Fijians (over from Ongea levu) with their cooking (11502) fire and ti covered lean-to on the beach, S. side. Back to N.W. side collecting a few plant specimens. The insect life is not abundant. There are a few beetles under bark and on dead twigs; small flies, leafhoppers and wasps on foliage; and numbers of butterflies. Landshells are fairly abundant on the leaves of small trees and shrubs but they are all small and not many spp. On way back to schooner I landed on one of the rocky "mushroom" shaped islets and collected specimens of the palm which covers its slopes. Access was difficult owing to the steep slopes. The natives call the palms Niu sawa which corresponds to Pritchardia pacifica in the list. They look very much like our Hawaiian Pritchardias but have very small seeds, reddish when ripe. In pressing the palm caught some green scutalliatid bugs on the immature seeds. Pigeon fly got on the dog from the skinning room. Sunday, July 27, 1924. Spent most of the day on the small palm covered islet visited yesterday afternoon. It is good collecting because the vegetation is concentrated and also stunted which makes it readily accessible. The entire islet rises steeply from the sea for 15 to 40 feet. This cliff