and a small frame church. On the galvanized iron roof of the latter water is caught and stored in a cement tank. Welcomed by the usual array of girls and children. One girl was thrum- ming an improvised "jews harp" made from a section of coconut leaflet and a mid rib fiber. The two were so held in the month that the fiber could be thumped against the leaf, producing a rattling sound. The ridge rises steeply behind the village to about 200 feet elevation, and there is apparently no trail up it. The coconut grove covered flat to S. and S.S.W. of Ondu is about 300 to 400 yards wide. That north of the village is less wide, only 200 to 250 yards. This rapidly narrows to just the sand beach with outcrops of slab sand stone, and finally to a narrow rocky shelf. One can traverse this "good sea path" with comfort only at low tide. I traveled it at less than half tide and ex- perienced several waves above my knees. Ngalingali is situated on a widening of the shelf (200 to 300 yards wide) a little north of the middle of the east side. It consists of 35 or so native houses, one or two of corrugated iron, and a frame church, from the roof of which rain water is led to a cement tank. Bought an old worn basket for 1 shilling and a canoe baler for 2/. From Ngalingali a trail leads up over the ridge and across the wooded basin to the garden areas at the N. W. end of the island. Followed it, secur- ing a number of specimens of small landshells, which are quite abundant on the leaves of shrubs and trunks of trees and on the bare rock faces. Saw a patch of "wet-land" taro, growing in water in one of the depressions. Caught a "leaf-like-insect", the first one I had ever seen alive. Didn't see it until I had it in the net, having swung at a leafhopper which was sitting on its leaf-like wing. Descended to Takalay village and returned to schooner 51;5. Mr. Beck caught a brown longicorn beetle which came to light in the hold,