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[[start page]] [[stamped]] 18 [[/stamp] Puerto Rico 18. Also one tiny yellow beetle under dead bark. Returned home in time for lunch, and spent afternoon writing letters & keeping accounts. [[margin note]] X-10-35 [[/margin note]] Had arranged to meet Oakley for a trip in region around Ponce, but he wrote that he couldn't make it. I went anyway. Route was Rio Piedras, Caguas, Cayey, Aibonito, Coamo, Juana Diaz, and Ponce, returning through Santa Isabel, Salinas, Guayama, Cayey, and Caguas. I was headed for Matrullas, above Villalba, but missed the road and ran into continual rains. [[underline]]Station 59.[[/underline]] 5 miles southwest of Aibonito on road to Coamo. A small hillside pasture. Collected in cow dung. ^[[(2 Staphs)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] Returned from Ponce after lunch by way of the coastal plain to avoid the continual rains. [[underline]]Station 60.[[/underline]] 5 miles west of Salinas on road from Ponce. A mud flat. A nice series of ^ [[(44)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] Staphs, etc. under horse or mule dung. Missed the road near Aibonito and went as far as Barranquitas. Later took wrong road from Guayana and had to retrack. This was a hard day's trip, but one that took me through some very fine country. The road from Guayama to Cayey is the most scenic route I've seen in the West Indies so far. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[stamped]] 19 [[/stamp]] [[left margin note]] X-11-35 [[/margin note]] Friday. A day of rest and letter-writing. Also cleaned a large number of vials, etc. [[left margin note]] X-12-35 [[/margin note]] Set out again to visit the locality described to me by Oakley. This time went by way of Bayamon, Vega Alta, Ciales, and the road to Villalba. At kilometer [[strikethrough]]36[[/strikethrough]] ^[[?]] turned off to east and rode about 12 kilometers on a rough road to a sign giving the altitude as 3198 ft. It also says "Carretera Mas Alta de Puerto Rico." I found there had been no cattle about for weeks, at least, but I found a few of the usual Staphs in horse manure in the road,--also one of the small Coprinae. At the same place in excrement I got some very different Staphs. [[underline]]Station 61.[[/underline]] Near Matrallas, north of Villalba, on a Forest [[in margin, written in black ink]] A, B [[/in margin]] Service road. Dung ^[[(8 Staphs)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] and excrement ^[[B]] [[insertion written in black ink]] (separate). [[underline]]Station 62.[[/underline]] Kilometer 32 (from Manati) on road from Ciales to Villalba. A pasture with horses on hill overlooking road. Four or five species of ^[[(18)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] Staphs and one [[underline]]Aphodius[[/underline]]. At station 61, I also took two round black [[in margin, written in black ink]] Sta. 61. C.[[/in margin]] beetles from the base of one of the epiphytes related to the pineapple. Went on into Ponce for lunch and returned over the [[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] pass without stopping. [[end page]]
