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42   St. Lucia 42.
V-2-36  Went to town again and waited all the morning for the "mechanic" to do the job. He finally finished and I got home to lunch. These repairs cost me four shillings.
Spent the afternoon putting stamps in the album. Went through two of the "1000" packets of hinges! Evening at same thing, except for an hours diversion with the gasoline lanterns. One broke down completely, one had a broken mantle, the third leaked, and only the entrance of a new one saved us.
V-3-36  Sunday. Intermittent showers dispelled whatever ideas I had of going out. So I spent the day on stamps and periodicals. We found a bedbug on clothes the the closet, and that perhaps accounts for four large bites I've received about my waist.
V-4-36  Still more rain than usual. I intended to go out but found no opportunity. So worked on stamps and read. We now have all the stamps in albums - 1600 of them, and about 2900 in the duplicated books. Can't do any more till we get more hinges. We have become used to running down both large and small cockroaches, and tonight I caught a large spider which Ruth saw underneath my chair.
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V-5-36  The weather was not quite so threatening today, and I started out for Soufriere Valley. After mailing letters in town I rode up the valley for about two miles. I saw little chance to collect, but finally stopped near the river where a side "road" starts up the south side of the valley.
[[underlined]] Station 227 A. [[/underlined]] 1/2
Along the Soufriere River about 2 miles up from the town. Searched along the river bank without any success. Crossed over and opened several old coconut husks. Found 24 Staphs (Piestinae - 15, [[underlined]] Pseudopsis [[/underlined]] - 3, Staphylininae - 1, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 1, Aleocharinae - 4), 3 Hydrophilidae, 1 Curculionidae, 1 Scolytid, 2 larvae, 1 other beetle, 1 Forficulid, and some ants.
I followed a trail to the top of a nearby hill.
[[underlined]] Station 228. [[/underlined]]
1/4 mile southwest of sta. 227A, on hill over the river. In dung found 7 Staphs ([[underlined]] Platystethus [[/underlined]] - 1, Xantholininae - large - 1, Aleocharinae - 4 and 1), 5 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]], and a few ants. This specimen is not exactly a [[underlined]] Platystethus [[/underlined]] but is similar. It is a new species to my collection, at least. The Staphylininae mentioned above is a tiny slender species resembling the Philonthi; it may turn out to be a Paederinae.