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Mrs. Wooler was out for tea and dinner and Eleanor, 

 now Mrs. John Blennerhassett, and Mannie were just 

 leaving for some tennis. A letter from Marjorie was 

 waiting for me and with that I departed for Piccadilly- 

 Road where I had orange juice in lieu of hot tea. Mar- 

 jorie has been transferred, more or less permanently, 

 to Prome, the location of the large sugar factory of 

 the West India Sugar Co., Ltd. That means that I will 

 work the region about Alley from Kingston or perhaps 

 from Mendez Pen. I answered the note, asking for in- 

 formation about stopping places in or near Sav-la-Mar. 

 That would put me half way between Bluefields and Negril 

 and I shall want to work both of those regions. 



Before dark, I wandered around the place and collect- 

 ed five or six species of ants. Dinner about 8 and bed 

 about 10. 



April 25. Left house at 7.30 and started for Annotto Bay. 

 Just beyond Half Way Tree, took the left or old Stony 

 Hill road which runs over Mammee Hill. Commenced road- 

 side collecting as soon as I was away from dwellings. 

 At a point about a mile below Bellevue I found two logs 

 at the side of the road both of which had colonies of 

 HstwfrennaSL QOBYexinotfttus Snyd. When I had scooped 

 the termites I could see many small brown larviform 

 animals crawling about in the galleries. A series of 

 about 70 specimens were taken and the species was later 

 identified by H. 6. Barber and H. Morrison as belong- 

 ing to the genus Termitaspis (Heteroptera). As far as 

 I know, this is the first termitophile to be taken on 

 the island. There was also a nest of Pheidole fallax 

 var. oval is For el in the same logs. Moved on to a ford 

 just above Bellevue and about 1 mile SE of Stony Hill. 

 As the collecting proved quite good, I decided to stay 

 there for the day. Just before reaching the ford, my 

 eye fell on a peculiar carton nest up the bank from the 

 road. It proved to be Nasutitermes but seemed out of 

 place. It was about 14 inches in diameter, hemispher- 

 ical and partly below ground* It enclosed a small 

 stump. The species appears to be N. costalis and the 

 ground habitat may be normal for this species. At the 

 ford I took a good series of a tingid and various mis- 

 cellaneous insects by sweeping. Under stones there were 

 colonies of various species of ants, including Euponera, 

 Odontomachus, Anochetus and Cyphomyrmex. Away from the 

 road and along a path leading into the woods I found a 

 very old log that contained larvae and adults of Macras- 

 Pis tetradactvla . After lunch I continued collecting 

 until the rain became too hard and wet the foliage too 

 much. Between showers I pushed on toward Stony Hill, 

 stopping once at a small grove of cacao. Very little 



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