COLLECTING IN JAMAICA 



DURING the past year Mr. John A. Grossljeck and ^Nlr. R. P. Dow, a 

 member of the New York P^ntomological Society, have made 

 large insect collections on the island of Jamaica for the American 

 Museum. Considerable work was done at Cinchona, where is located the 

 tropical botanical station of the New York Botanical Gardens. The town 

 lies in the Blue Mountains about twelve miles from the coast at an elcAation 

 of 6000 feet. A luxuriant tree-fern forest was \'isited on the top of one of 

 the highest peaks. The species secured from the various environments in 

 these mountains are ^'aluable for comparison with forms collected on lower 

 levels of the island. 



Montego Bay also furnished good collecting, with a series of cave species. 

 For comparative study with these species at sea level, Catadupa, twenty 

 miles inland and 3000 feet high, was also explored. More than three 

 thousand entomological specimens representing approximately five hundred 

 species, and about one thousand other invertebrates were secured alto- 

 gether. Careful ecological data with a series of photographs illustrative of 

 different environments gi\-e unusual A'alue to these Jamaica collections. 



Termites, or white aiils, travel in covered Kaileries whicli they construct along every 

 branch of the tree 



The termite nest is made of wood-pulp and placed usually in trees, although sometimes 

 attached to fence posts or stone walls 

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