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May 1. Left Piccadilly Road at 8*30 to go to Hope. Dixon 

 was just leaving for home; he was apparently coming down 

 with measles. Edwards was late and at 9.10 I went to 

 his home where I found him supervising some construc- 

 tion about the place. He is apparently dabbling in 

 real estate. In 1937, he was living partly at the Pa- 

 goda (burned down this spring) and partly in the house 

 on Hope Road next door to the place he is in now. Then 

 they were busy repairing that house and as soon as it 

 was in good livable condition they rented it and took 

 over the present place, also greatly in need of repair. 



Further they have 



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my bathing trunks 

 and verified my sus- 

 picion that the pen 

 had been left at 

 Eaton Hall. Saying 

 Good-bye, I started 

 for Annotto Bay, 

 this time by the 

 good road through 

 Constant Spring. 

 A mile beyond Stony 

 Hill I stopped at a 

 banana walk where 

 there were several 

 banana stalks down 

 on the ground and 

 partly decayed. 

 Collecting was very 

 good. Took a few 

 ants, some staphy- 

 linids and Metama- 

 sius. Also took 

 specimens of the 

 giant histerid, Plesius .javanus, a predatory species re- 

 cently introduced into the island for the control of the 

 banana borer. Later when I reported the capture to Dix- 

 on, he told me that after repeated failures in their 

 attempts to establish the species on the island, the 

 colony planted near Stony Kill had taken hold and that 

 this year, more specimens had been recovered there than 

 had been planted out originally. We hope that the Ple- 

 sius controls the Metamasius before the Panama disease 

 wipes out the banana. Moved on but did not stop at 

 Castleton Gardens as there were several bus loads of 



Ripe mangoes. 



