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In this list we encounter yet again the two series of Korekore nights of similar names—surely a confusing arrangement. In the 17th and 18th names we have two mutilated forms as compared with Maori Rakau-nui and Rakau-matohi. This is apparently the Matohi alluded to at page 169 of the Whare wananga. The name Oari is the local Ari; in full, Ari-matanui. Curiously enough, the word or expression arimatanui means "wise" in the Mangarevan dialect.

Further data is lacking but desirable, and probably I have missed some that is on record somewhere.

We now see that the names of the nights of the lunar month, as employed by the Maori of New Zealand, are known far and wide across Polynesia, and that, of all the lists given, that of the Marquesas group contains the most names not found in our local list.

The term aurei is applied to the moon when crescent-shaped. The new moon is occasionally called kohiti, a word used to denote the appearance of the new moon. Hua and huanga are employed to denote fullness of that orb; Ohua is the night of the full moon. Tohi describes the waning of the moon; tipihori has a similar meaning. Ata marama is moonlight. Mahina, a far-spread Polynesian term for the moon, is met with in Maori songs. Atarau is another name applied to the moon and moonlight; another expression, ahoroa, has already been referred to. The expression marama i whanake denotes the waxing moon, marama hua the full moon.

Williams's Maori Dictionary gives Ariki-matanui as a name for the 10th night of the moon; it closely resembles that of Arimatanui, applied to the 11th night; the latter also appears as Ari-roa and Ari-mataroa. There is some unexplained meaning attached to this name.

The Rev. R. Taylor remarked in his Maori and English Dictionary that there appears to have been a kind of division of the nights into decades. We have obtained no proof of this;