Ascended the face of one of the forehills, through a native garden planted to manoc, sweet potatoes, malo, bananas, papayas, and coconut palms. On each side was a small thicket of the usual littoral trees. Numerous but- terflies and moths of the common species found on nearly all the islands. The ridges and slopes are covered principally by a knee high narrow leafed green to brown in color; the familiar plume grass, which fortunately is low (up to 3 feet) except in hollows; two species of ferns, both previously collected, one the coarse, wiry fern with narrow pinnules, and various stunted shrubs and weeds. Among the latter noted the shrub with the 3-locule winged capsule and the orange flowered species with white floral leaves. Also a shrub resembling Boerhaavia, with white flowers; bidens, yellow flowered composite, lavender orchid, and numerous common weeds. Ironwood (Casuarina) trees and the ever present Pandanus scattered here and there. Sida, morning glory, etc., and yellow leafless parasitic vine. Craneflies, grasshoppers, brown crickets, and numerous moths in the glass. Also small ortalid (?) flies, microwasps etc. Collected an orange bracket fungus, common on fallen pandanus trunks. The ridges are well eroded and the soil disintergrated and weathered. One sees occasional outcrops of dark reddish, brown or gray lava, but for the most part it is dark rich soil. Nearly all the numerous ridges, which radiate out spoke-like from the central peak, rise in a series of one to several humps Diagrammatic Profile of Mothe. Diagrammatic Profile of Mothe. before reaching the central peak, the summit of which is covered with a cap of trees. The coconut groves are more extensive in the southern and eastern valleys.