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goblet like flowers about an inch across and quite 

 pretty. There were ripe seeds to be had so I took 

 a bottle full for Ben Morris on. Came back to the 

 house for dinner which consisted of canned salmon, 



Looking southwest from Kensworth porch. 



bread and butter, with grapefruit juice to drink. 

 After dinner I went straight away from the house, to 

 the east and over the terrace wall into the pasture. 

 Much better collecting, took at least fifteen species 

 of beetles as well as many homoptera and heteroptera. 

 The almost total absence of flies amd wasps is re- 

 markable. So far I have seen only one wild bee, that 

 one was on a flower on the way to White Horses; I 

 missed it with my net. Flowers are almost as rare, 

 the Cordia and Acacia found Feb. 6, the flower men- 

 tioned above and the Yellow f, Tigridia ,f are all that 

 I remember of seeing. I did find the host plant of 

 the bruchid taken in the morning. It is a low shrub, 

 perhaps three feet high, bearing pinnately compound 

 leaves of from ten to twelve leaflets and long slender 

 pods ( about 4.5 by .25 inches). By beating every 

 shrub that I could find I got a series of a hundred 

 or so bruchids. I also collected a bottle of the beans 

 for possible identification. Came back to the house 

 for a combined tea-supper of salmon, fresh tomatoes, 

 fried bananas, fried sweet potatoes, boiled eho-cho 

 (which is like summer squash but without seeds), 

 coconut milk and cocoa. A good meal, pretty well 

 cooked. At this point let me introduce the servants. 



