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River, through Speculation and Luana. Near Luana we 

 saw a good looking pasture and stopped. Dick worked 

 dung for staphylinids and Aphodiinae while I beat the 

 shrubbery from miscellaneous insects and spiders* Took 

 a good lot of the latter. Ate what we had for tea and 



Small pond, five miles west of Black River. 



At Middle Quarters put up the net. We drove to a point 

 half way up Spur Tree Hill where we stopped to let the 

 engine cool. The catch was a large one, in fact one of 

 the largest that we took on the whole trip. There were 

 more than two thousand staphs and there was a series of 

 eight specimens of what was obviously a new species of 

 Phyllophaga. From Spur Tree we took the road to Knock- 

 patrick, then to Newport and Kensworth. 



Feb. 25. Spent the morning putting away the catch of the 

 last two days. Also investigated one of the sinks. 

 The investigation was not conclusive because when a 

 rock is dropped in, you can't hear it strike bottom 

 and so can f t tell how deep it really is. It's plenty 

 deep, anyhow. In the shrubbery around the sink we got 

 a beautiful case of chiggers, enough to keep us itching 

 for the next few nights. In the afternoon we went back 

 to Alligator Pond Bay, by way of Mandeville, Spur Tree, 

 Gutters and the road down the valley. Took one more 

 Psyllobora, a few shells and chitons and had a swim. On 

 the way back we put up the net and drove back to Gutters 

 and then back and forth on the Spur Tree - Santa Cruz 

 road until quite dark. However, we took no more of the 

 new Phyllophaga. Finally home through Alligator Pond and 

 Cross Keys. Missed our way at Cross Keys and took the 



