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Jamaica 14.

[[left margin]] II-7-37 [[/left margin]] Sunday. A day of rest. We wrote up journals and labelled and packed specimens. Also went for a short ride. Prepared for a trip tomorrow.
[[left margin]] II-8-37 [[/left margin]] Got away at 8:30 to return to the Bath region. At Port Morant we stopped for gas, and asked the attendant where we could get some green coconuts. He directed us to Clifton Hill Estate. We met a lady name Pengally, who gave us nine large nuts and said she had heard of us from Mr. Wooler. When we reached our collecting place we found a bunch of blacks loading bananas, but they didn't bother us much.
[[underline]] Station 392. [[/underline]]
[[left margin]] A [[/left margin]] Same as sta. 389, (Both in St. Thomas). On the big [[insert]] cotton tree [[/insert]] log we found 11 of the large Cerambycids and 2 [[underline]] Chaliolepidius silbermanni. [[/underline]] [[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] From under bark of large chips took 4 [[underline]] Passalus [[/underline]], many Ceramb. larvae, and myriopods. From bark of logs (EAC cotton and some other tree mixed; REB - cotton tree only) Took hundreds of small weeivls, [[insert]] 149+ [[/insert]] Staphs, Scolytids Histerids, etc., etc. From a small [[left margin]] C [[/left margin]] pile of dung I took   Staphs, and Sphaeridiinae, [[left margin]] D [[/left margin]] From under stones at the edge of the stream (in the shallow water) [[insert]] we [[/insert]] took about 50 tiny Dryopids and 4 [[underline]] Eubrianan [[/underline]] or Psephinid larvae (water pennies), [[left margin]] E [[/left margin]] and on the bank [[insert]] 13 [[/insert]] Staphs, Carabids, etc. From a [[left margin]] F [[/left margin]] very rotten log I took two shiny balck Rutelinae

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[[underline]] Macraspis tetradacyla [[/underline]] [[insert]] (with pupal skins) [[/insert]], several very large wireworms (?), and many myriapods. Ed took in the upper end of the log 8 Rhyssodids, pseudoscorpions, and 3 pale green rouches. With the beating net [[left margin]] G [[/left margin]] along the river I took 1 [[underline]] Lagochirus araneiformis [[/underline]], 2 of a tiny Cermb., several Chrysomelids, [[underline]] Enochormus ritchii, Brachyacantha bistripoustulata, [[/underline]], bugs, etc. [[left margin]] H [[/left margin]] After dark I took 6 Lampyrids and 1 [[underline]] Pyrophorus. [[/underline]] Another of the latter flew into the car later. At the sheet and lantern we took 2 [[underline]] Cyclocephala signata, 1 Ligyrus Surmulosus, [[/underline]] 1 Lampyrid, [[underline]] Playtpus [[/underline]], Scolysids, 1 Hydrophilid, small pale weevils, leafhopers, Colydiids, Phalacrid, Throseid, 1 [[insert]] (5) [[/insert]] Staph, bugs, etc. The large tree from which we took the Cerambycids, Elaterids, and most of the bark things was a silk cotton tree. The lower fifteen feet of the trunk had been cut up into lumber, leaving a large pile of chips and debris. The remaining butt was about 5 feet in diameter.
As things stopped coming to the light about 8:30, we packed up and came home.
[[left margin]] II-9-37 [[/left margin]] Last night a Mr. Nethersole who lives on the Hermitage Dam Road, brought down a jar with over a dozen nice Scarabs. They had come to the lights; so we arranged to call at his house tonight. Spent the day packing yesterday's