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[[stamped page number upper left]] 38 [[/stamp]] Guadeloupe 6.

After a large lunch we rested and wrote in journals, and at four o'clock started for a walk up the road beyond Matouba. We went about two kilometers, practically to the end. At dinner time I caught several brown Scarabs at light. This will be [[underlined]] Station 69.[[/underlined]]
Auberge de la Riviere Rouge, Matouba, 3 kilometers northeast of St. Claude, Guadeloupe, 2100 feet el.
Flying to light. (X-26-35 to XI-9-35)
[[margin note]] X-27-35 Sunday [[/margin note]] Started out at 8 A.M. northward along the coast from Basse-Terre. The road is paved for some miles. We stopped just at 
[[underlined]] Station 70.[[/underlined]]
Nine kilometers north of Basse-Terre. A grassy slope along the road. I collected in dung, getting 
[[left margin note, underlined, written in pencil]] 21 Staphs [[end margin note]]
a fair series; and Ruth filled a vial with Chrysomelids from a bush. I found one tiny black scale on a grass leaf.
A little farther on we stopped at 
[[underlined]] Station 71. [[/underlined]]
Between Marigot and Bouillante, along the road. Sweeping netted a large number of spiders, and one or two Coccinellids.
Shortly after this the pavement ended and the road becomes merely a double track, and is very steep in spots.
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[[stamped page number, upper right]] 39 [[/stamp]]

[[underlined]] Station 72. [[/underlined]]
Three kilometers south of Pointe Noire, a 
[[margin note, in black ink]] A [[/margin note]] small valley occupied by a cacao grove. A pile of the blackened decaying pods yielded nothing in the sieve, but under what was obviously a mass of the inner part of one fruit were many Nitidulids, many [[underlined]] Calitys[[/underlined]], and quite a few of one species of Staph. [[penciled]] (5) [[/pencil]]
We drove a few kilometers past Pointe Noire but were stopped by a hill that our little car wouldn't pull. We came back through the town, bought some bananas for lunch, and stopped to eat at Station 72. After lunch I 
[[margin note, in black ink]] B [[/margin note]] collected in fungus, obtaining some large black ants, a small Scolytid or something, and three slender ^[[(2)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] Staphs, not ever seen before.
As it had been raining for some time, we found further collecting hard, and started for home. There are no sandy beaches of any size on this coast. Most everything is gravel. We did stop at one small black sand beach, but seaweed was scarce, and I saw nothing but ants,--not even amphipods.
Got back without mishap, but a little early, and had to wait nearly two hours for dinner. 7[[underlined superscript]]30[[/superscript]] is the hour, and I certainly don't appreciate it!
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