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Beach Grape ( Coccoloba uvifera Jacq.) was abundant on 

 the sea side and yielded several good things* Best of 

 all was a series of an undescribed species of Psyllo- 

 bora. It was not common but by beating all of the 

 beach grape in sight we took perhaps six specimens. We 

 will come back here later to get more* There were some 

 nice looking longicorns and one rather large and strik- 

 ing cyrptorhynchine weevil . About noon the girls came 

 with a fine lunch which was thoroughly enjoyed* At a 



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Beach at Alligator Pond Bay, looking east* 



suitable time after eating we went in for a swim in the 

 surf. After the swim the girls went back to Kensworth 

 and we continued to collect until it was time to put the 

 net up over the car. We drove home by way of Cross Keys 

 and took a good catch. Spent the evening talking about 

 this and that. 



21. In the morning Marjorie took me over the estate to 

 point out the dangerous sink holes. One of these is more 

 than 250 feet deep. Don Bovell had himself lowered into 

 it on a 250 ft rope and was unable to see bottom from 

 that point with a strong flashlight. His dog had fallen 

 in while chasing hogs. There are three bad sinks on the 

 place. She also showed me the differences between Con- 

 volvulus and Passiflora, genera which I had not differ- 

 entiated. Took a small series of a blue Halticid on the 

 Passiflora and a large series of a small black Halticid 

 (Epitrix sp.) on the Convolvulus. Back to the house for 

 dinner at about 1 PM. It started to rain and continued 



