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and Bearesem East Farmhouse, on our return, we picked 

 from the stems of plants along the water's edge, fifteen or 

 twenty shed skins of a Gomphine dragonfly (Gomphoides) 

 of a species which I never saw in the winged condition any- 

 where in the Banana River region. An almost parallel ex- 

 perience we had along Crum Creek, in Pennsylvania, in 

 July and August, 1908, with another Gomphine and similar 

 observations have been made in other parts of the world. 



On November 9 Mr. Veitch gave me a horse and tele- 

 phoned to Seiior Vivo, mandador of Bearesem West Farm, to 

 meet me at Beverly Commissary. The only road was the 

 railroad and the horses here were accustomed to walk the 

 ties or, where there was a smooth path at the side of the 

 roadbed, to travel on that. In either case the pace can 

 rarely be faster than a walk, so at a walk I rode to Beverly 

 Commissary where Bearesem West Main Line and Phila- 

 delphia A Line met. Beside Beverly Commissary stood a 

 schoolhouse, chiefly, perhaps wholly, for the negro chil- 

 dren, and another edifice bearing the sign "Philadelphia 

 Church." These buildings had red tile roofs which formed 

 a strong contrast to the surrounding green of the bananas as 

 seen from the verandas of the Superintendent's house at 

 Philadelphia South. 



At Beverly Commissary Sefior Vivo was waiting for me on 

 horseback. He had agreed to take me to a creek crossed by 

 "Spur 3," to certain points on the upper Banana River, 

 and to a potrero in (I think) Section 38 of Bearesem West 

 Farm. So we rode first through the bananas from Beare- 

 sem West Main Line to Spur 3 and along the latter track to 

 a creek formerly crossed by a bridge which was carried 

 away in the great floods of the preceding December. The 

 creek was broken up into pools here and there and dragon- 

 flies were fairly abundant but so alert and wary that I could 

 not catch one. 



