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quarters at their estates of Derry (near Balaclava) and Kensworth 

 (near Newport). From Derry the northern part of the west end of 

 the island was easily worked, and from Kensworth we found many 

 good localities along the south shore from Alligator Pond Bay to 

 Savanna-la-Mar. On the beach grape at Alligator Pond Bay a very 

 interesting and as yet undescribed species of lady bird beetle (Psyllo- 

 bora, n. sp.) was taken in numbers. 



The most productive method of collecting that we resorted to was 

 by means of a net fastened to the top of the automobile. While very 

 little could be taken in this way in broad daylight, a truly prodigious 

 number of specimens, mostly of small to minute size, were caught 





Fig. 79. — Our car with collecting net in position for use. On our return in 

 the evening from collecting, this net added many thousand specimens which 

 would otherwise have been missed. 



each day between the hours of five and seven in the evening. For an 

 example, the net was used on the road one evening from Spanish 

 Town to Half Way Tree, a distance of 13 miles. After discarding 

 the fragile specimens which were broken by impact with the net, we 

 saved 3,953 specimens of beetles, representing 146 species distributed 

 among 34 families. Many of these species were previously not known 

 from the island and some are certainly new to science. 



Although insects were relatively scarce because of the drought con- 

 ditions which prevailed during our stay, we succeeded in securing 

 some 50,000 specimens of various orders, representing about 1,000 

 species. Three species of scarabs new to science were found, as well 

 as several which were not previously represented in the collection of 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



