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Additional notes on Jamaica - in retrospect.

[[left margin I    I[[left margin]]  The three localities at which I have collected fireflies seem to yield different types.  In St. James above Catadupa most were of large size, perhaps [[underline]] Photinus pallens [[/underline]] which is said to be confined to the hills.  The light emitted was moderately bright but of short duration.  Above Manchioneal in Portland parish the species were smaller, about three-eighths to one-half inch, with a longer period of light-producing.  At Derry in Manchester parish they were still smaller but seemed to be much brighter and to stay alight longer.  These may belong to [[underline]] Pygolampis [[/underline]].
The luminous click-beetle so common at Derry and other places is [[underline]] Pyrophorus plagiophthalmus [[/underline]].  It is common near cane fields and is said to fly in thousands over the fields, the whole company flashing brilliantly in unison.  I did not have the pleasure of verifying this, though I heard it from several sources.  The larvae are said to be predaceous on the "white grubs" which are such a serious pest of sugar-cane.
Among the large and showy beetles recorded from the island are [[underline]] Stenodontes damicorius [[/underline]], [[underline]] Ptychodes trilineatus [[/underline]], and [[underline]] Dynastes hercules [[/underline]].
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The latter is said to be rare, but none of them have been seen by me.
Summary of insects known from Jamaica:
Ants, forty species, including the Fire Ant, the related [[underline]] Cremastogaster   brevispinosa [[/underline]] Mayr. which nests in orange trees and feeds on the destructive Black Scale; a leaf-cutting ant, [[underline]] Atta jamaicensis [[/underline]]; and six species of house ants!  Mosquitoes, 40 to 50 species; the troublesome ones are [[underline]] [[insert^]]Anopheles [[/underline]][[^insert]],  [[underline]] Aides [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Uranotaemia [[/underline]], species of [[strike through]]the former[[strike through]]Anopheles being malaria carriers; some breed in water contained in the parasitic plants growing high up on the trees; one sea-shore form breeds in crab holes in brackish waters but does not bite man!  Flies, two midges that are a great nuisance at times, ten Tabanids; two bot-flies.  Orthoptera, Mantids; a green locustid; [[underline]] Neoconocephalus nigrolimbatus [[/underline]]; twelve sp. of cockroaches; several crickets. [[strikethrough]]7[[strikethrough]] Dragonflies, fifty species.  Ticks, six species, one attacking fowls, one frogs, remainder domestic animals.  Moths and butterflies, good collecting but number of sp. less than on mainland; 94 sp.
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 The coney ([[underline]] Geocapromys brownei [[/underline]]) is the only indigenous mammal (except bats).  A Rice Rat, thirty bats including [[underline]] Vampyrus spectrum [[/underline]] with 30 inch wing spread, are found.  The bats are common in canes, but some live only in houses and rarer ones only in trees.