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Kay 10* Up at 6.30 to write up notes and label specimens 

 taken yesterday* A good breakfast was served by Lucille 

 and after clearing away, we all started for Monkey Hill 

 by way of Hew Haven Gap. The trails have been nicely 

 bushed out, thanks to an arrajigment of Swabey f s and the 

 walking was very good, always up, of course* Near the 

 cabin we passed through a long avenue of pine trees, 

 apparently several species* Some of the trees had died 

 and their stumps were inhabited by a species of Kalo- 

 termes, just ready to swarm. I took good series, inclu- 

 ding winged adults and soldiers* The weather was fine 

 when we started but as we gained altitude the clouds 

 became heavier* Yellow raspberries were frequent along 

 the trail, as they had been below Cinchona* On the last 

 ridge, half a mile from New Eaven Gap the rain commenced 

 and it was soon necessary to take shelter under the 

 braken ferns at the side of the trail. The rain came 

 harder and harder and we finally gave up and turned back, 

 soaked to the skin and a bit chilly* At just under 6000 

 feet I took two dealated termites in a cavity in a hard 

 dead tree trunk, my highest record for any termite on 

 the island* It was raining too hard to collect on the way 

 back so we almost ran back to the cabin* Changed to 

 dry clothing and played cards until dinner. While Lucille 

 got dinner, we took all of the wet clothing and dried it 

 before the open fire in the front room. Bed early. 



May 11. Up at 6 for breakfast and an early start along 

 the trail to Morces Gap. First stop was to strip the 

 bark from a fallen tree; nothing of interest except a 

 colony of a small black ant. A little farther on there 

 was a standing dead stump which was full of termites, 

 Neotermes sp. We cut it to pieces and were doing quite 

 well by ourselves when Bernard cut his fingers on my 

 cutlass. He went back to the cabin for iodine and I 

 stayed to work over the stump thoroughly. Found a few 

 soldiers. Before Bernard returned, I moved on to a 

 second and similar stump which contained more of the 

 same kind of termite* However, could find no soldiers 

 in the second colony* By the time I finished there, 

 Bernard came back and we worked along the path, turning 

 stones. Poor collecting, one carabid and two roaches. 

 We stopped for a time at the entrance to a glen and 

 after clearing away a rank grouth of ginger lilies, 

 we found the collecting in the leaf cover fairly good. 

 Took a series of a dark chestnut brown amphipod. another 

 carabid, a very beautiful coral -red and black lycid lar- 

 va and some roaches. Farther on along the trail we 

 found a place where there was a scorpion under almost 

 every stone* Then the rain started and we turned back* 

 Eroke camp and got away at 5.50, reaching the car at 



