feet, or larger, mounted on two light poles at the sides, the bottom weighted and the top with hau wood floats. Some were smaller of similar style and a few were without sticks - more of the throw net type. To Tambuta Plantation with Mr. Brodnam. He is something of an amateur botanist and showed me with pride his vegetable and flower gardens, in which he was growing with much success, but with some combating of insect and fungus pests, - truck vegetables of various sorts, several species of Hibiscus, roses, fruit trees, flowering and fruit vines and shrubs, etc. After lunching with him we walked up through the plantation where he pointed out and named several of the native and cultivated trees. He has a large acreage of coconuts and quite a number of orange trees of the kind called moli ni taiti, ("the orange from Tahiti"). Several trees of an ohia ai (Eugenia malaccensis) called by the natives "kavika;" they were heavy with fruit, pali- table even before turning pink. A small leguminous shrub either Cassia obtusi- folia or C. occidentalis, with yellow flowers and slender cyllindrical pod is called Kau mothe, because the leaves "go to sleep" or fold up at night. The large leaved aroid (alocasia indica ?) called apé in Hawaii is here called via, with various variety names depending on section of county and mode of growth. Yutu wai (Barringtonia rasimosa) is plentiful. The kernels are poisonous (more or less) and used to stupify fish. They are pounded or grated up and placed in the water; the fish soon become stupified and come to the sur- face. The wood of the wiriwiri tree (Gyrocarpus jacquirie) is exceedingly light when dry and is used for making canoe outriggers. The small black fruit of the doi (Alphitonia excelsa) tree is eaten by pigeons. Returned to the landing place after gathering a few plant specimens, at 5 P.M. Mr. Beck brought in six small brown weevils which he found on lemons, and one large white landshell, found on a shrub in one of the gulches.