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Jamaica 12.

[[underline]] Station 385. [[/underline]]
Pasture at northeast corner of Hope Gardens, Kingston. [[left margin]] A, B, C [[/left margin]] Lantern [[insert]] A [[/insert]] and sheet; fireflies flying [[insert]] B [[/insert]]; on fresh stump [[insert]] C [[/insert]] and under chips [[insert]] C [[/insert]]. The lantern attracted few beetles (a Chrysomelid, [[underline]] Ligyrus, Platypus, [[/underline]] an [[insert]] aberrant Scophylid [[/insert]] but many [[left margin]] D [[/left margin]] leafhoppers. [[underline] Chlorida festeva [[/underline]] on log. Also sweeping [[insert]] D [[/insert]] - Cacanillids.
When we got home we found we'd [[insert]] forgotten [[/insert]] our keys, so we had to wait for the others who went to a movie.
[[left margin]] II-6-37 [[/left margin]] Took our lunch and got a rather late start for Bath in St. Thomas. Our first stop was at [[underline]] Station 386. [[/underline]]
On coast 23 miles east of Kingston [[insert]] Label Morant Bay [[/insert]], Near White Horses. [[left margin]] A [[/left margin]] From bark and chips of recently felled tree (called "Budge Gum" by natives - perhaps a corruption of [[underline]] Bursera gummifera [[/underline]] - Tropic birch). [[left margin]] [[underline]] 10 Staphs [[/underline]] [[/left margin]] Minute beetles, including brown weevils. [[strikethrough]] This bottle apparently lost. [[/strikethrough]] [[insert]] Found again! [[/insert]] In same vicinity [[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] took several Bruchids from a flowering tree, [[insert]] (Cordia gerascanthoides) [[/insert]] and [[left margin]] C [[/left margin]] several yellow weevils on a flowering acacia. Also [[left margin]] D [[/left margin]] under drift on the beach - several [[underline]] Phaleria, [[/underline]] the brown and black beetles found on all the other islands.
[[underline]] Station 387. [[/underline]]
Near Bath in St. Thomas, at foot of Cuna Cuna Pass trail. [[left margin]] A [[/left margin]] From fungus [[underline]] (Hydnum) [[/underline]] took 385 Staphs, etc. From base [[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] of cocoanut leaf Ed took myriapods and a red frog. One bee and one wasp were from net over the car on the coast road.

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[[underline]] Station 388. [[/underline]]
2 miles by road from Bath in St. Thomas on the Cuna Cuna [[left margin]] A [[/left margin]] Pass road (trail). Spiders from a twenty square foot colonial web. Also two Tenebriomids and several Nitidulids [[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] from banana stem.
We are lunch here and then returned to Bath and followed the road eastward about 2 miles.
[[underline]] Station 389. [[/underline]]
12 miles east of Bath in St. Thomas; at bridge over Indian Cony R. near junction with Plantain Garden River. Eight [[left margin]] A [[/left margin]] large and three small Cerambycids on trunk of a cut tree (cotton tree). From under back and [[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] under chips took numerous Staphs and other small beetles - an beetles and myriapods respectively. The two small Cerambs were taken beating the dead leaves and smaller branches.
On the way home, after agreeing to return to this last locality, we put up the net over the car.
[[underline]] Station 390. [[/underline]]
Between Bath and Morant Bay. From net over car took   Staphs and many other beetles and flies.
[[underline]] Station 391. [[/underline]]
Between Morant Bay and Kingston. From net over car took    Staphs, a small Cerambycid, several fine weevils, Heterocerids, an Elaterid, many Bostrychids and Scolybids, etc., etc.