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harbor, said to be the most beautiful one on the is- 

 land. There were one or two boats in at the time 

 but the whole place seemed half asleep. There are 



Port Antonio harbor from the west. 



a few fairly large and rocky islands just off the 

 coast a little east of Port Antonio that are inhab- 

 ited by single families. One looked especially nice, 

 the house was set perhaps 500 feet above the water 

 and the island itself might have been an eighth of a 

 mile offshore* We continued along the coast road with 

 occasional stops for collecting until we reached Fair 

 Prospect where we turned in on the road to Friendship 

 Valley. This was one of the best localities that Dick 

 had found in 1935 and at the right time of year should 

 produce a good crop of Chrysomelidae and longicorns. 

 We got some spiders and a few insects, mostly Coccinel- 

 lidae and leaf hoppers. Followed the road and came out 

 on the coast road near Manchioneal. Stopped just south 

 of Manchioneal and took a fine lot of leaf hopper s* 

 Getting late so we pushed on home by the shore road 

 by way of Port Morant and White Horses. Reached home 

 at 8.45 PM, too tired to go out after fireflies. 



Jan. 31. Spent the morning sorting and labelling the 



catch and in visiting the traps at Ferry River. Found 

 ants in all of the glasses, also one centipede and an 

 earwig. Everything is too dry; such a habitat should 

 have produced full traps. In the afternoon went to 

 Caymanas to meet the Bovells at tea and to arrange to 

 collect on the grounds of the Company. Mrs Bovell and 



