for his own workmen - he says. Pleasant conversation with him learning much about the island. Moths are numerous at lights at night. He has seen at least two kinds of snakes, possibly three. The highest peak - elevation 540 feet, is called Delana Bo. Just beyond Lomati along the N.E. beach the limestone cliff rises abruptly from the sea, but a small sand beach remains dry at half tide. Followed the shore back to Tarukua in a heavy rain. Mr. Beck turned over two black Lucanid beetles and three of its Larvae which he found in a coconut stump. Several caves on the island, some with bats and one with a deposit of phosphate - according to report. Tuesday, September 16, 1924. Central and West Thithia. Ashore at 6:30. East along beach; up second small valley east, along stream; up grassy slope to ridge top, which I followed south to two small peaks, the highest on the island. This central grassy area is rather poor in plants and insects. The plants include the usual "plumo grass" - called "Nasau" by the natives and "reed" by the whites; a low, narrow leaved grass; wiry open frond ferns; stag- horn fern reaching to about the knee; two small low ferns; open scrub in places, consisting of stunted rewa and the usual three or four shrubs and stunted plants enumerated before under "Lakemba:" here and there a Pandanus and Casuarina; local patches of the beautiful palo lavender field orchid. The insects include the large grasshopper; one or two small grasshoppers; occasional stray butter- flies, mainly Monarch and Vanessa; a few small and medium size moths; red ants, smaller fuscous ants, and stray wasps; small flies - the small pictured winged sp. and a small nemocera; small leafhoppers and slender brown grass bugs; mitos; and tiny spiders. Both the N.W. peaks are as high or higher than the one to the S.E.