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proved to be good, especially at Bogue, a large coconut 
plantation. Castle Daly (August 24-25, as the guest of Mr. 
Robert W. Bell) and Moneague Lake (August 25-26) 
proved, entomologically, rather disappointing. On the 26th 
I returned to Kingston, staying at Mona Great House, near 
Hope Gardens, and spent the next three days working the 
Liguanea Plain and nearby country. Ground beetles were 
unexpectedly numerous. A trip (afternoon of August 29) 
to the Rio Cobre at a point about 5 miles above Spanish- 
town, and to the swamps beside the main road from Kings- 
ton to Spanishtown, resulted in an especially fine collec- 
tion. 
On August 30 I reached Haiti, meeting Dr. Marston 
Bates at Port-au-Prince, where we made our headquarters 
at the Sans Souci Hotel. After several days of delay, spent 
partly in collecting in the Cul de Sac region, we drove in a 
1927 Buick roadster into northern Haiti. From Septem- 
ber 5 to 11 we were at Ennery, about 1,000 ft. altitude, 
working especially along the fine little river near the town. 
On September 9 we made a rather hasty side trip to Mt. 
Basil, probably the highest mountain in northern Haiti, 
and found several fine, new mountain Carabidse in patches 
of very wet, low cloud forest on the summit plateau, about 
4,700 ft. Engine trouble forced us to return to Port-au- 
Prince on September 11. We broke the drive south long 
enough for me to spend a very profitable four hours along 
the edge of the extensive swamps north of Dessalines. 
While our car was garaged, we persuaded Mr. Andre 
Audant, government entomologist of Haiti, to join us in a 
miniature “safari” to the neighborhood of La Visite, on 
the western end of the main range of La Selle, south of 
Port-au-Prince. Our schedule was arranged to the last 
detail through the good offices of Captain Frederick Baker, 
whose knowledge of the country and country people is un- 
surpassed. We were away from September 16 to 23, mak- 
ing our base camp in tall pine forest at over 6,000 ft., be- 
side the small river called by the local Negroes the Riviere 
Blanche, but referred to by Wetmore 2 as the Riviere 
2 Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, by Alexander Wet- 
more and Bradshaw H. Swales, Bulletin 155, United States National 
Museum, 1931. 
