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[[margin]] VII-26-35 [[/margin]] In morning went to see about reservations.
[[margin]] J [[pencil]] J [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] Met young man that collects butterflies. Told me to try collecting near Bath. After lunch rode to Derry ([[strikethrough]] [[G?]][[/strikethrough]] Bonell residence in Manchester) via Spanish Town [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] and Porus.
[[margin]] I [[pencil]] I [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] The caretaker got his man to dig under cow dung, and we got fifteen ± of the black Scarabs, as before. After an early dinner I went out into the woods for fireflies and "blinkies". The fireflies are brilliant but very small and apparently different from either of the previous lots. I also got four or five of the very brilliant and swift-flying [[strikethrough]] El [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Pyrophorus [[underlined]]. When I got back to the house Miss Savarian had caught eight or nine more that flew into the house.
Miss Savarian has copies of No. 1 and No.2 ^ [[insertion]] and No. 3 [[/insertion]] of the Jamaica Naturalist, 1927 and 1928 ^ [[insertion]] 1928 [[/insertion]] respectively. No. 1 gives name of the large Scarab I've found. [[underlined]] Phaeneus sulcatus [[/underlined]] drury (P. belzebul=). Notes on habits are indefinite. Nos. 2 and 3 contain notes on mosses, snakes, [[underlined]] Peripatus [[underlined]], mammals, shells, etc.
[[margin]] z [[pencil]] Z [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] Snakes have been abundant on the island but are now practically extinct ([[strikethrough]] due [[/strikethrough]] owing to mongoose). Two are recorded that were eight or nine 
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feet long, but none were venomous.
Black snake ([[underlined]] dromicus ater [[/underlined]]), Yellow boa ([[underlined]] Epicrates inornatus [[/underlined]]), Spotted [[Chirmed?]] snake ([[underlined]] Leimadophis [[strikethrough]] ino [[/strikethrough]] callilaemus [[/underlined]]), Two-headed snake [[underlined]] (Typhlops jamaicensis) [[/underlined]], Pardaline snake [[underlined]] (Tropidophis maculata)[[/underlined]], and a crested snake (possibly a legless lizard). Mammals include seals, whales, bats, rodents, [[underlined]] Alco [[/underlined]], "a mute dog-like creature, a household pet of the Arawaks, now said to be extinct; 1 [[underlined]] Capromys [[/underlined]] or Coney; 1.[[underlined]] Manatus [[/underlined]] or manatee; 4  [[underlined]] Mus [[/underlined]]; 1 [[underlined]] chilonycteris [[/underlined]]; 2 [[underlined]] Molossus - [[/underlined]]; 1  [[underlined]] Nyctinomus [[/underlined]]; 1 [[underlined]] Reithronycteris [[/underlined]]; and the introduced (1872) [[underlined]] Herpestis mungo [[/underlined]] or mongoose.
[[margin]] I [[pencil]] I [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] My first hint of a Cerambycid came today when Miss Savarian showed me a letter identifying a specimen of "Girdling Beetle" as [[underlined]] Oncideres cingulata [[/underlined]].
The [[underlined]] Phaeneus [[/underlined]] we found were in loose soil about 3 inches deep, beneath a place where there had obviously [[underlined]] once [[/underlined]] been a pile of dung. One of the little brown Scarabs so common around lights was found in same situation, - also several larvae. Miss Savarian said that these ^[[insertion]] [[underlined]] Phaeneus [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] are much smaller than usual, - she used to see them about twice as large (or more). However, at another time she complained of her memory, so it might be an error.