Beneath milo thickets and scrub the hillsides are clear, fairly gentle in slope, and covered with loose rocks of volcanic material. Insect life especially abundant and interesting. No landshells noticed. Told that both brown and gray snakes present, but saw none. Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. de Mouncey at their attractive home, their son, Mr. Hunt and Mr. Gibbs, also present. Mr. de Mouncey is a prominent Suva ac- countant and an artist of no mean ability. Friday, October 17, 1924. Wakaya and Wakaya-lailai. Ashore at 6:30 and followed the main track the entire length of the island. The island made up of volcanic material which outcrops as "pudding stone" ? - a dark gray to light brown rock, with quantities of small dark crystals resembling olivenes. Saw a number of familiar plants including patches of Lucaena glauca Lauci (kukui), rewa, wild lemons, etc. Milkweed and monarchs. Fences, coco- ut trunks, trees and ground in places festooned with "mile-a-minute". A large "Vata" (copra dryer) on central hill. Collected a moderate size Tipulid-like Nemocura, swarms of which seen dancing in the air. Roll 75:4. South end of Wakaya, called Wakaya lailai, connected with main (11603) mass by a narrow isthmus, looking south from south slope of main mass. The southern portion of the main island, north of the isthmus is covered with a scrub of guava, Pandanus, sisal, plume grass, cycods, and coconut palms. Roll 75:5. West side of ishtmus, looking toward Wakaya lailai. (11604) Roll 75:6. Mr. R. H. Beck, head of the expedition, with north-west point of (11605) Wakaya-lailai in background.