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[[underlined]]Antigua 15.[[/underlined]]
[[left margin]]VIII-14-36.[[/left margin]] The weather was rather threatening, but I went out behind the Botanic Gardens to collect.
[[underlined]]Station 275.[[/underlined]]
½ mile east of St. Johns; near the Botanic Gardens.
A In dung found 41 Staphs ([[underlined]]Oxytelinae[[/underlined]]--13, Paederinae--8, Stilici--1, Xantholininae--5, [[underlined]]Philonthus[[/underlined]]--12, Aleocharinae--2), 6 Sphaeridiinae, 2 Histerids, 12 [[underlined]]Aphodius[[/underlined]], and 2 Forficulids. [[in margin]]B 
In a pile of rotting grass found 9 Staphs (Paederinae--5, Xantholininae--1, [[underlined]]Philonthus[[/underlined]]--3), 2 Carabids, 5 Histerids, 12 Aphodiinae, and 1 Forficulid. Both of these lots were taken with aspirator. This is the best lot for the island so far, but can scarcely be called good. Interrupted by rain.
  Spent the rest of the day at various things, as cards, stamps, sorting shells, etc. The rains we are having are supposed to be unseasonable, but they are too abundant and continual to be passed off that way. Anyway there is hope of a cessation.
[[left margin]]VIII-15-36[[/left margin]] Went collecting to the northeast of St. Johns, to High Point, a favorite picnicking place.
[[underlined]]Station 276.[[/underlined]]
About 5 miles northeast of St. Johns; High Point, a beach on Parham Sound. From under seaweed on the beach took 7 Staphs (4 Paederinae and 3 [[underlined]]Cafius[[/underlined]]), 10 Carabids, and 40 other Coleoptera.
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The roads were in very bad condition after the hard rains last night and before, but the beach had a great deal of seaweed on it. The road passes through sugar cane country all the way, and places to collect were very scarce. On the way home I tried to take a side road, and very nearly got stuck.
Spent the afternoon as usual, except for the package of mail that Ruth brought. I had some Sciences, an Ent. News, and letters from Siepmann Ward's, etc., etc.
[[left margin]]VIII-16-36[[/left margin]] Sunday. Rainy all day. I spent a lot of the day reading "The Black Douglas" by S.R. Crockett. I was surprised to find it is probably written about quite another Douglas from the one I had in mind.
Ruth got some stamps from Mrs. Mason. They are mostly European, etc. A second lot is chiefly from various of the Leeward Islands. There are some fine high denomination ones. We've been very low on most of these northern colonies.
Wrote a letter to Siepmann. In his last he tried to answer my question about who was present at the NY Ent Soc. meeting in Dec. 1932. But I know no more than before, since they had to guess at who was there. I could have done that! It doesn't matter much anyway.