bluff is a line of beach trees with numerous Causarina, especially on the N.E. and N. Behind these is the usual lowland forest reaching to near the summit, which is crowned with a low windswept scrub on the east side. A long narrow reef connects the two islands. On this are a number of thin, narrow rocks, sculptured into fantastic shapes, with "windows" through. There are several rocks on the west side, but the east side of the reef shelves off into the deep water of the lagoon. Landed on a sand beach toward the S.W. point. Here was a small clump of coconut palms. On the beach was a shelter made of palm leaves, and signs of fairly recent copra cutting, within a month. Climbed the steep, wooded S.E. slope to the top, which is rounded, covered thickly with stunted trees and scrub, and very rough underfoot. From here a very good view was had of the surrounding islands, and the reef connect- ing this island with Yuvutha. Caught a large specimen of the fuscous and yellow spider. I had previously considered it a sand beach and lowland species, but finding a large specimen quite at home at 250' elevation, shows it to have a general range throughout these islands. It had feasted on two good sized longicorn beetles, the remains of which - quite past recognition - hung in its web. The fruit of the ficus tree with moderately large, assymetric leaves, is red-purple (plum color), when ripe, quite soft, tasteless and quite without sign of wasps inside, although it attracts the medium large red ant. Descended again to the beach, collecting quite a few small landshells and seeing absolutely none of the large flat greenish species, which was so common on Yangasa lovu and Nevitu ilama. Found a turtle shell (in bad condition) on the beach. It had a little putrid meat adhering within which contained some maggots of the bluebottle fly and a number of elliptical, black beetles. These appear to take the place of Dermestes cadaverius and D. vulpinus, the scavenger beetles of further north, none of which I have seen in Fiji. About 11 A.M. rowed and sailed back to Yuvutha, against a strong wind.