The summit of most of the high hills and some of the slopes are covered with an open forest of the familiar lowland trees. Slopes are fairly steep in places with outcrops of volcanic rock and beds of pebbled (sample). Roll 67: 5 and 6. Panorama from S.W. peak. The highest peak (830) is (11555+6) at the left, the "thumb" in the center background, and the S.E. peak on the right. The peak in the center foreground is at the center of the island. Outcrops on the N.E. slope of the S.W. peak - volcanic rock containing crystals of olivene (see sample). South side has three partly wooded ridges separated by two valleys. Portions are grassy with coconut palms. At their heads the valleys are separated by low gap ridges from the eastern and western valleys. These lower ridges are covered with grass and Pandanus, but there is no nasau, "plume grass." Several heavy showers made collecting poor. But even allowing for the dampness, insects not abundant. A few grasshoppers, betterflies, stray wasps and on Cassia occidentalis (kau moth) some small moths, dolichopodid flies, sarcophigids, and a few small wasps. This is the first island in Lau which has had sharp rocky wooded hills of volcanic material. There is no limestone, but a few sheer cliffs are of basalt. Swallowtail butterfly present. Found a dead adoretus beetle in a spider web. Caught one of the moderately large lizards - purplish gray above and light yellow green below. Have seen this species on several of the islands about cocoanut leaves. Caught a pair of Hypolermas bolina butterflies in cap. The female "carries" the male. An auto truck is used for carrying copra out of the larger valleys. Climbed the grassy south slope to the "thumb" a 60 foot shaft of lava rock at the summit of a 500 +/- foot peak. Sample of the basaltic material from its summit. Found termites - all casts - in a small totten stump near the "thumb."