Both the large yellow and fuscous spider and the smaller dark fuscous ("umbrella" web) spider present. Saw one of the large noctuids with gray fore- wings and pink and black hind wings. Cushion moss on rhizoids of ferns and moist limestone rocks appeared the same as that on Moala high plateau. (Specimen). The bay on the south is dotted with islets - rocky and wooded, of various sizes. One is about a mile long and 80 feet high. Another is horse- shoe shaped and deeply cut by small bays. The rest are small rocks. Collected flowers of several (3) plants previously collected. Saw a great quantity of small beetles, brown with metallic blue elytra, in the air and on the leaves of a small tree, which they had nearly defoliated. Caught several brown and orange butterflies. Saw Chua trees in flower. Several large "flying fox" bats. Mr. Beck brought in a green catydid and a white orchid. The latter grows and looks like the common field orchid, but the flowers are pure white instead of lavender. Sunday, September 21, 1924. Spent the morning packing 3 boxes of specimens, making 7 new cyanide bottles and a new insect net, and rowing down to Ngillangilla island to map in the point and passage. Underway at 12:30 for Avea, where we anchored at 1:45. Sketched in the hills of the big island (Vanua Mbalava) as we sailed by, and completed the outline of the Exploring groups in the afternoon. The limestone slopes continue as far east as the east side of the eastern deep inlet. Beyond here to the S.L. the hills are grassy, of volcanic origin with some forest on the upper slopes and along the beach. The small sandy bays of the limestone district, of which there are several support small