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Haiti 10
[[left margin]] VIII-7-35  J[[/left margin]]
The sun was rather late in rising this morning because of a hill between and the cold kept me in bed till it came up, so a really early rise failed to materialize. However, I was on my way by seven, starting off in a westerly direction up the hill toward The Morne de La Selle which is the highest mountain in the range. I followed a path used by the natives, though I couldn't tell where they could go on it or what the purpose. At least fifty of them passed during the next two hours. There is no water available at this elevation so they must live down below in the valleys. Horse and burro dung in the path yielded quite a few things. The same things as found in the road yesterday [[insertion]] at [[/insertion]]
[[underlined]]Station 21 [[/underlined.]]     (VIII-6-35) 
The road about midway between Fond Pariesien and Fond Verettes. Rather barren foot hills with some native cultivation. [[margin]] Put with [[underlined with arrow downward]] sta.22. [[/underlined with arrow downward]] [[/margin]] Collected only in dung in the roadway.  
Up above, however, the Staphs were more [[left margin]]Sta.22(A) 57 Staphs [[/left margin]] abundant and not restricted to a single species. The majority seemed to be [[underlined]] Oxytelus[[/underlined]] ,but I think there were a couple of Xantholini, and several very small ones that appeared 
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to be Tachyporini but may have been Aleocharniae instead. Most of these things were beneath the dung rather than in it. I didn't have a sieve but spread out the soil on a cloth and picked things up with the aspirator. [[left margin]]Sta.22.B [[/left margin]] I then tried fallen logs. The very rotten ones yielded numerous specimens of what appear to be[[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]] at a glance. They were quite [[left margin]] 3 Staphs [[/left margin]] deep in the wood sometimes, and I believe I got the pupae also. Practically nothing else was found except a few ants. There were tunnels of round-headed borers occasionally but nothing in them. I saw little evidence of bark-borers of any kind. I found practically nothing under bark. Sweeping among the ferns and plants under the pines in the open forest yielded [[left margin]] Sta.22.C. [[/left margin]] very little but beating of the plants along the edge of the jungle where the pines are scarcer yielded perhaps the best collecting of the trip so far. I stayed here about an hour, getting a nice series [[insertion]] (22) [[/insertion]] of the large [[underlined]]Paederus [[/underlined]],a few [[insertion]] (10) [[/insertion]] of the small slender Paederids, a large Elaterid, quite a few weevils, a great many small spiders, a few Chrysomelids, Coccinellids, etc., etc. This locality is_______
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