Sugar Refining Co. in Mr. Veitche's office. The collection is of good size, about the same size or somewhat larger than that at the Suva Department of Agriculture and has the advantage of being very largely and carefully named, the identifications having been made by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology (Guy A.K. Marshall), London. Entered the names and brief description of species in the systematically arranged list begun in the Department of Agriculture, last June. Met and cordially greeted by Mr. A.M.O. Farquhar, Manager of Lautoka Mill and Attorney for C.S.R. Co. in Fiji. He offered me every facility within the power of the Company during my stay, saying that the representatives of the C.S.R. Co. had always been received with such kindness in Honolulu that he welcomed this opportunity to reciprocate. Large number of people over from Ba region to play golf. Well attended dance in evening. These English people are great dressers. Dress and evening clothes even in the "wilds" of Lautoka. Sunday, October 26, 1924. Read sections of Wilkes narrative of the N.S.E.E. (an abridged edition published in England) loaned me by Mr. Veitch. Spent the rest of the day mak- ing notes on the insect collection at Mr. Veitch's office. Regarding the scarcity of house flies in Fiji, Mr. Veitch said that a Phelangid parasite had been introduced by Jepson in 1911, which is said to have caused the sudden disappearance of house flies 1911-1912. The presence of Pheidole megacephola may also be a factor of perhaps even greater importance. Tea with Mr. and Mrs. Veitch, meeting Mr. G. R. Robertson, field overseer of the plantation. He is greatly interested in tropical agriculture and has the best collection of modern scientific books of any private individual met in Fiji.