A year of Costa Rican natural history

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1: Beetle Pachyteles seriatoporus, 2: Fore leg of same showing antenna-cleaner, 3: Walking Stick (Ceroys bigibbus), Peralta, from life. Nearly life size. 4: Caterpillar (Castnia? sp.) from bromeliad, La Emilia. Identifier: yearofcostarican00calv (find matches)
Title: A year of Costa Rican natural history
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Calvert, Amelia Smith, b. 1876 Calvert, Philip Powell, b. 1871 joint author
Subjects: Natural history -- Costa Rica Costa Rica -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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, still attached to itshost tree with which it had fallen. The third was near thesecond on an upright tree, but although I got the rope overit I was unable to dislodge it, pulling with all my strength,and as I shook down a great many of the Odontomachi Ihad some doubts whether this plant would have yieldedmany other insects. The fourth and last was in the forestabout 200 feet above the river, perched on a tree-trunk tento twelve feet above ground. The unavoidable shaking, pro-duced by my repeated attempts to throw the rope over it injust the right spot, brought down a few small ants (Aptero-stigma) but none of the larger Odontomachus, which Itook to be a favorable indication. After half an hourstugging and pulling the mass, consisting of three plants andweighing surely not less than fifty pounds, fell to the ground.I cut off the leaves as before and soon found a dragonflylarva between two leaf-bases not far from the circumference.In an hours further searching no other such larvae were
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1. Beetle (Pachyteles seriatoporus) from bromeliad, Juan Vinas, xj>2. 2. Fore leg of same showing Antenna-cleaner, XI4. 3. Walking Stick (Ceroys bigibbus), Peralta, from life. Nearly life size^ 4. Caterpillar (Castnia? sp.) from bromeliad, La Emilia. 2V. Tojace p. 232 o-o S > ri * «^ ? 2 s

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