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[[preprinted]] 78 [[/preprinted]] St. Vincent 17.

We went to dinner with the Hatchs' at the Rectory. It was fast day but we hardly lived up to it. I was feeling very bum with a queer sort of stomachache, but it didn't get any worse after eating. Mr. Hatch told some of his experiences in South America, etc., and we played Pit for a while. They drove us home about eleven.

[[margin]] II-8-36 [[/margin]] Went out in the morning to work in a pasture just this side of Calliaqua. I think it belongs to Ormond Hazell.

[[underline]] Station 168. [[/underline]]
Three miles southeast of Kingstown, near Calliaqua on the southern coast. In cow dung took 254 Staphs ([[underline]] Oxytelus [[/underline]] -220, Xantholininae -8, Paederinae -1, [[underline]] Philonthus [[/underline]] -3, Aleocharinae -21 and 1), 10 Coprinae, 42 [[underline]] Aphodius [[/underline]], 17 Sphaeridiinae, and 1 other beetle.

I went down to the beach but it was margined at the water's edge by a coral reef, and had no seaweed or drift. Came home for lunch.

Spent the afternoon writing this journal, copying field notes, etc. In the evening tried to think up an article on Guadeloupe for Ruth to send to the West Indian Review. Finally it upon the theme of "Contrasts", thinking of the two islands, churches & shrines, buildings, the cheerfulness of the people, etc. 

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[[margin]] II-9-36 [[/margin]] Sunday. Ruth went to church at nine o'clock, but I went out to keep my appointment with Victor Williams at Pembroke Estate. I found him waiting, and we walked about a mile up the valley and climbed about 400 feet to get above the cultivated area into the bush. He had spotted one or two termites nests and we found several more. This was at

[[underline]] Station 169. [[/underline]]
On hillside overlooking Sta. 165, near Pembroke Estate on the Buccament River. In the first nest of termites we opened, we found the queen and some large black ants, but no guests. In another I couldn't even find the queen. In the third again no queen but I took a good series of the tiny pale insects, and one large Myriapod. Under a small stone beside a spring was a nest of minute red ants with several larger white bodies (queens??).

These nests were all of [[underline]] Nasutitermes [[/underline]] sp., but all differed from those found in Grenada and Trinidad by not having a woody hard area around the queen cell. Several other nests were found but they were only partly occupied. Frequently also there were large numbers of large red ants occupying part of each nest. Some were taken [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] from the third nest mentioned above.