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Catadupa we took a side road leading to Mocho. Found 

 a few millipeds and some good sweeping. Got a series 

 of coccinellids and spiders; Dick found a few nice 

 staphs. Then we ran through the Cockpits which are 

 now generally planted to bananas to Mont ego Bay. This 

 is the big resort town on the north shore, full of 

 magnificent hotels which are very expensive. Started 

 east along the shore and stopped at several places to 

 collect under beach drift. Minute trichopterygids were 



very abundant in 

 the seaweed. For- 

 ficulids were also 

 there in numbers 

 but in general the 

 collecting was not 

 good. Phaleria sp. 

 and Aphodiinae 

 should have been 

 there. A mile or so 

 beyond Mont ego Bay 

 the shore has been 

 captured by the man- 

 grove and there was 

 no more shore line 

 before we reached 

 Falmouth. Here we 

 ate our tea. There 

 are very nice ruins 

 around Falmouth and 

 Hyde Hall. After 

 leaving Falmouth we 

 put the net up over 

 the car. The first 

 part of the run was 

 through cane fields 

 and we emptied the 

 net at the end of 

 the cane. Had a good 

 catch with many staphylinids. On the map this would be 

 Jackson Town. From Jackson Town we took the road running 

 nearly due south through Ulster Spring to Troy and Oxford 

 and then to Derry. Put away the catch and went to bed 

 without any night collecting for fireflies. We leave for 

 Kensworth tomorrow morning. 



Feb. 17. Left Derry early in the morning for Kensworth. Good 

 thing we started betimes because we had our first real 

 car trouble. Something was wrong with the ignition and 

 while we could do as high as 25 m.p.h. on level ground, 

 we could barely creep up a hill even in extra low gear. 

 We finally stopped and found one sparkplug out because 



