groves of coconuts and there are also small patches even on top of the lime- stone plateau. Visited in evening by most of the younger men and two girls from the village, about two dozen in number. Monday, September 22, 1924. Avea. Ashore at 6:45 landing at the village, which is also called Avea. It is located on the S.W. end of the island and consists of about 15 native huts and three frame houses besides the church. Made for the wooded central plateau, the lower slopes having been cleared for cultivation or coconut palms. Collected a few landshells on the slope, and caught another of the moderate size yellow and fuscous spiders oscillating on its web. A small grove of coconut palms on the plateau expalined why a good trail leads up the steep rocky slope. The plateau is about 1/4 mile wide and 3/4 miles long, rising to a peak at the south (called Sa(n)gawela(n)gi about 500' elevation) and tapering to a knife edge on the north. It occupies the central portion of the island. There are a few small patches of bananas and areas which have been cleared for culti- vation in the past, but the greater portion is covered with a moderately open stand of the usual lowland forest. Remains of an ancient stone wall would in- dicate that a village had once stood on part of the plateau, possibly in the early war days. The highest point on the island, (Mt.) Salia (600'), is located toward the north end of the plateau about the middle of the island. It is a small abrupt pinnacle of limestone, wooded on the less percipitous W. slope and crowned by a few old gnarled, wind-blown casuarinas, of large girth, but small height. From its summit a good view may be had of the plateau and most of the island.