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[[margin]] VII-17-35 [[/margin]] In A.M. rode to Gordon Town, Guava Ridge, Mavis 
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Bank, and Black Bridge over the Yallahs River. 
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Couldn't cross the bridge. Found a large gray and pink [[strikethrough]] ?tenebrionid?[[/strikethrough]] weevil in the road. Another 
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case of entomologist's eye! Collected samples of half a dozen types of boulders in river bed but found no insects there. Found a 
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dead and broken specimen of the same black Scarab as at Station 9. this was at about the same place as the [[strikethrough]] ?tenebrionid?[[/strikethrough]] weevil, [[line]]
[[underline]] Station 11 [[/underline]]
The road one mile east of Mavis Bank, near the Yallah's River.
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Rock specimen No. 8 was taken on the road about half-way between Gordon Town and Guava Ridge. There are two samples. No. 9 is a set of 15 fragments of various rocks from the bed of the Yallah's River at station 11. No. 10 is from the roadside about one mile west of Mavis Bank. This formation had a very green appearance.
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This area is in the region of highest rainfall - over 100 inches, but is not as densely overgrown as the part at the eastern end of the island.
[[insertion]] The weevil mentioned above is a [[underline]] Diaprepes [[/underline]]. X-6-35. [[/insertion]]
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[[margin]] VII-18-35 [[/margin]] Started out at nine o'clock for Montego Bay. 
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Went via Spanish Town, Bog Walk, Ewarton, Moneague, Claremont, Brown's Town, Stewart Town, Clark's Town, Falmouth. First collecting was at [[underline]] Station [[/underline]] 12.
Between Ewarton and Moneague (5 miles south of Moneague) in Parish of St. Ann. A pasture in rolling hills at 1000 ft. ± elevation.
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Found one Staph, one [[underline]] cercyon [[/underline]], two small Scarabs, and a large series of a large Scarab which burrows only two or three inches deep. Only worked one and a half piles to get all these, - 
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[[underline]] Station 13. [[/underline]]
One mile south of Moneague on Ewarton Road. Cow? dung at road side.
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Only one Staph found.
In yellow campanulate flowers at Sta. 12 I secured four examples of Nitidulids.
[[underline]] Station 14. [[/underline]]
Four miles northwest of Claremont in St. Ann. In small fungus on fallen log. 
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One Staph [[curly bracket]] [[underlined]] lost [[/underlined]], one Forficulid, and one other [[underline]] tiny [[/underline]] beetle.
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While passing Bog Walk I kept a lookout for the Richmond Beds (shale) which are supposed to

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