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May 1.  Left Piccadilly Road at 8.30 to go to Hope. Dixon was just leaving for home; he was apparently coming down with measles. Edwards was late and at 9.10 I went to his home where I found him supervising some construction about the place. He is apparently dabbling in real estate. In 1937, he was living partly at the Pagoda (burned down this spring) and partly in the house on Hope Road next door to the place he is in now. Then they were busy repairing that house and as soon as it was in good livable condition they rented it and took over the present place, also greatly in need of repair. Further they have bought the place on the north shore and the pimento estate near Sligoville. Mrs. Edwards found my bathing trunks and verified my suspicion that the pen had been left at Eaton Hall. Saying Good-bye, I started for Annotto Bay, this time by the good road through Constant Spring. A mile beyond Stony Hill I stopped at a banana walk where there were several banana stalks down on the ground and partly decayed. Collecting was very good. Took a few ants, some staphylinids and Metamasius. Also took specimens of the giant histerid, [[underline]] Plesius javanus [[/underline]], a predatory species recently introduced into the island for the control of the banana borer. Later when I reported the capture to Dixon, he told me that after repeated failures in their attempts to establish the species on the island, the colony planted near Stony Hill had taken hold and that this year, more specimens had been recovered there than had been planted out originally. We hope that the Plesius controls the Metamasius before the Panama disease wipes out the banana. Moved on but did not stop at Castleton Gardens as there were several bus loads of