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and we found a good series of various small beetles 

 in the cracks of the drying bark. Mostly Colydiidae, 

 weevils and tenebrionids but also a few other families 

 were represented* Further along the road but still not 

 as far as Tflihite Horses there was a fine tree in full 

 bloom. It was afterward identified from our descrip- 

 tion and its location as Cordia gerasoanthoides by one 

 of the men at the station. Its flowers were like those 

 of a lilac but much larger and pure white. Beat some of 

 the flowers and got a few Bruchids. At White Horses we 

 found an acacia in bloom with an Apion-like weevil in the 

 flowers. As the beach was quite near the road here, we 

 went onto it and turned up some Phaleria under some sea- 

 weed* No more stops until we reached Bath. Here we 

 turned off the main road and took the trail to Cuna Cuna 

 Pass through the Blue Mountains. The trail is good 

 enough for a car to within five miles of the pass. Col- 

 lected in fungus and rptten coconut leafbase, getting 

 a few staphylinids, some diplopods and a frog. Ate our 

 lunch at the end of the good road. There we found a 

 very interesting colonial spider web. It covered about 

 twenty square feet as a single sheet supported by the 

 tops of the grass and herbs. The spiders were spaced 

 some six inches apart over the entire surface and appeared 

 to respect each other's territory. The species was a 

 small one, not over a quarter inch long; the males were 

 brown and the females black. A rotten banana stem near 

 by yielded tenebrionids and nitidulids. We then returned 



to the main road and ran 

 to a place about one mile 

 east of Bath where the 

 road crosses the Indian 

 Cony River near its junction 

 with the Plantain Garden 

 River. Here there was a 

 very large silk-cotton tree 

 recently cut down. There 

 was a fine pile of chips 

 where about twenty feet of 

 its trunk had been. That 

 piece of trunk may have been 

 made into a boat or canoe. 

 The collecting was the best 

 yet. On the trunk itself 

 we found several specimens 

 of a large cerambycid and 

 one Chalcolepidius. The 

 epiphytic orchids were still 

 alive on the trunk and 

 Silk-cotton tree (Dick) larger branches. Under chips 



