covered with Lenna; collected specimens. Numerous large Mango trees along the road and tracks in basin. Followed a narrow gauge tram line which leads from the old sugar mill to a shed and wharf in the small bay at the east side. Saw some bushes of kly (Acacia freycinetia) for the first time since leaving Honolulu - at least the first time in Fiji. There used to be a residence near the bay in the sugar or cotton days and here quite a number of date palms and other imported trees are located. The east bay is a remarkable one. The bay is between 1/2 and 5/8 mile long by 1/4 wide with a shallow entrance only about 60 feet wide. Mr. Menzies informs me that the current through this entrance attains a velocity at flood of seven knots, and is about 1/2 hour later than the tide outside. The entire rim is of wooded limestone, the stream disappearing through it. There are several small ponds of fresh water near the bay, some covered with Lenna, some only temporary with the trees (not mangrove) growing in and about them. This east side is quite moist with luxurient growth - ferns, shrubs, moss, etc.; and landshells on both rock faces and shrub leaves. Small brown conical shells on rocks in addition to the flat green ones. Waterstriders on the fresh pools. Small dragonflies as well as the larger brown, and green species. Saw some of the large gray and pink noctuid. Large brown spider on leaves. One fern abundant which I collected previously. It has a stalk about 1 to 1 1/2 meters high with a whirl of radiating fronds - palmate, one simple and two branching, total of 9. [illegible] Moss on coconut palm sheltered three or four flat brown landshells. North of the bay is a small flat enclosed by high limestone cliffs on two sides and with bay and sea on other two; covered with brush and young coconuts. Caught some tiny Mycetophilid flies about a leaf badly infected with galls. Took sample matter. Collected another specimen of No. 553 in the