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Antigua 17.
VIII-17-36 When we got down to breakfast this morning we learned of the death of Mrs. Shepherd of Avon Dassett. She has been sinking for several days. The funeral will be this afternoon.
I went out collecting, but had to stop for gas and oil first. Found the oil tank empty, and can only hope it wasn't that way long.
Went along the road into the Parrish of St. Mary, past Morris Bay and a large lagoon to a fine sandy beach which must be near Fry's Point.
[[underline]]Station 277[[/underline]]
About 7 miles southwest of St. John's, near Fry's Point ^[[A]]on the west coast. From fungus took 157 Staphs ([[underline]]Coproporus[[/underline]] -1, Aleocharinae -156), 10 other Coleoptera, and ants, termites, bugs. The [[underline]]Coproporus[[/underline]] appears to be [[underline]]pulchellus[[/underline]]. There were three or four species of the ^[[B]]Aleocharinae, at least. From under seaweed on the beach took 1 Staph (Aleocharinae), 14 Carabids, 3 Sphaeridiinae, and ants. From under ^[[C]]excrement took 36 Staphs ([[underline]]Aleochara[[/underline]] -32, other Aleocharinae -4), 17 Histerids, 1 Tenebrionid, and ants. 
This is the most promising part of the island that I've seen. The road is fair, in dry weather.
Spent the afternoon counting and putting away specimens. The rest of the household was at the funeral.
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VIII-18-36 Spent the morning putting away specimens and washing vials. I've been drawing on my reserve supply for some time, and I've got a large number of things still in the vials. They are very apt to dry up so its a very bad thing.
After lunch I rode along the road north of town. Passed St. James Church, nearly to Hodge Point.
[[underline]] Station 278.[[/underline]]
About 4 miles north-northeast of St. Johns, near Hodge Point, in parrish of St. John. From under dung and among grass roots took 4 Carabids. No insects were seen [[underline]]in[[/underline]] the dung. Very extensive piles of seaweed on the rocks yielded nothing, though it seemed to be an ideal place. 
After tea Ruth and I went out to the Fort to swim. There were quite a few large jellyfish so we didn't care to "swim" very much. We did pick up a lot of shells from the beach, but the sand flies nearly ate us up while we were redressing. They are frequently very troublesome out there, but no one has even thought of doing anything about it. The Fort is on a peninsula but the whole peninsula is marshy and has a large lagoon and several ponds. These Britishers couldn't see the point to trying to clean the place up.