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to secure the particular insects desired the youngsters desisted in their efforts 

 to capture specimens, but often continued to follow at a safe distance to view 

 the strangers. Not always were the followers peaceable, for on one occasion 

 the entomologist was followed for a considerable distance over the hills of the 

 Scotland district by an ever-increasing mob of black children, who drew others 

 from far and near by their shouts of "A German spy." On another occasion 

 the writer was taken for an escaped lunatic, and three big black fellows armed 

 with a rope were making ready to capture the luckless ''bug man" and escort 

 him within the four walls of the nearby lazaretto. However, the persuasive 

 powers of the intended victim were sufficient to permit him to continue un- 

 molested. 



Among the men in VlLittle England" who take a special interest in ento- 

 mology and who did much to aid us were Mr. Wm. Nowell, Mycologist in the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture; Dr. J. C. Hutson, the then Acting Ento- 

 mologist in that Department, and who was taking the place of the regular 

 Entomologist; Mr. H. A. Ballou, then absent in Africa on special economic 

 investigations, and Mr. J. R. BovelJI^, Entomologist in the Colonial Department 

 of Agriculture. Rev. N. B. Watson, of St. Lucy's Parish, one of the delightful 

 old-time naturalists, has a fine collection of native insects, and Sir Gilbert Carter, 

 a former Governor of Barbados, has in his beautiful home an excellent collection 

 of native Lepidoptera. 



A few of the principal collecting places may be briefly referred to here. 

 One of the chief places frequented by insects of various kinds is the more or 

 less protected series of terraces referred to above. Here on the side next the 

 sea the vegetation is somewhat sheltered from the direct rays of the sun, and the 

 more delicate shrubs, small trees, weeds and Solanaceae in particulyar offer a 

 plentiful supply of food for plant-feeding insects, many kinds of which were 

 taken in the sAveep net. 



The high, dry flats between these terraces are often thickly overgrown 

 with the long, dense, sour grass which, however, is harsh and supports few insects 

 other than grasshoppers. 



It was indeed a pleasure to meet with one of our old friends, Megilla maculata 

 along with many other less well-known forms of Colieoptera, as wel^ as an 

 abundance of Hemiptera in the small ditches scattered over the island. These 

 are usually grown over with grass and weeds, and in them, during heavy rains, 

 the water flows in torrents; shortl)y thereafter they again become dry, but the 

 stimulus given the Vegetation by the more than usual amount of water keeps 

 it continually green and fresh. The surrounding country often becomes ex- 

 ceedingly dry, and many species of insects congregate in these wey-watered 

 places on account of the abundant food supply. 



The semiaquatic vegetation bordering small pool)s and streams also often 

 furnishes good colljecting plaices, as indeed do the waters and bottoms of the 

 pools and streams themselves. 



Often alpng the uncultivated borders of cane fields xarious kinds of weeds 

 and grasses grow, particularly if in low or somewhat moist and shaded situa- 

 tions. Even the cane fields themselves offer somewhat nmited opportunity 

 for collecting. 



Nor should the Scotland district with its dense tropical vegetation and 



