50 ITINERARY. 
1880. Jan. 7. Buenaventura. 
Jan, &-12. Guatemala city. 
Jan. 13. Lake of Amatitlan (about 3450 feet). Arid 
district, with many ‘nopales’ (plantations of Opuntia 
for rearing the cochineal insect, all enclosed within 
dusty adobe walls). The Volcan de Pacaya not very 
far distant. 
Jan. 14-18. Guatemala city. 
Jan. 19. Buenaventura. 
Jan, 20-25. San Gerdnimo. 
Jan. 26. Santa Rosa. 
Jan. 27—Feb. 1. San Joaquin, Alta Vera Paz (about 
3200 feet). Pine-clad, arid mountain-slopes. Rio 
Chisoy (or Chixoy) below. About the northern limit 
of the arid region of the central plateau. 
Feb. 2. San Cristobal (4250 feet). Cultivated ground 
adjacent to the Lake of San Cristobal. 
Feb. 3-5. Balheu (Valeu) (8850 feet), 
mountain-s!opes. 
Feb. 6-10. Coban. 
Feb. 11. Chiacam (2400 feet). 
scrubby woods. 
Feb. 12. San Agustin Lanquin (1000 feet). 
stone formation. Second-growth woods; forest all 
cleared. Rio Cahabon, a large tributary of the 
Polochic, adjacent. An unproductive locality. 
Feb. 13-23, Cahabon (Cajabon) (about 800 feet). 
Second-growth woods, forest all cleared near village. 
Large Indian population. No other people here, 
except the priest (who kindly accommodated stray 
travellers) and two or three Guatemalan officials. 
The very large church here is placed on a hill, higher 
than the smaller ones on which the Indians have 
built their huts. Plantations of cacao, maize, &c., 
around the village. ‘Toucans seen in these places. 
Feb. 24-28. Lanquin. The large limestone cave 
visited *, in company with an Austrian plant-collector 
casually met in the village. Only insects seen in the 
cave, an apterous Orthopteron (Arachnomimus 
cavicola). The Rio Cahabon, a broad stream, issues 
from its mouth, making its first appearance above 
ground at this place. 
Feb. 29-March 6. Chiacam. 
March 7-9. Coban. 
March 10-20. Cubilguitz (1050 feet), near Choctum. 
Limestone region, with humid forest on the hills, the 
roads between the hills extremely bad. Broad valleys 
with scattered trees. The Rio Dolores reached, but 
mot crossed. On main road from Coban to Peten, 
the track to Salinas (a place where salt is obtained 
and sent on Indians’ backs to Coban) turning off to 
* Also entered by Salvin, on Mareh 8th, 1860 [cf ‘ Ibis,’ iii, pp. 140, 141 
(i861)}, 
Pine-clad 
Coffee-plantations and 
Lime- 
1880. 
the westward near Cubilguitz. A good locality, but 
food absolutely unobtainable from the scattered 
Indian residents. 
March 21. Satchicht (2000 feet). In fording the 
river here my mule was so badly cut about the legs 
by the jagged knife-edged submerged limestone 
ledges that it was unfit for work for three months 
afterwards. 
March 22-24. Coban. 
March 25. Tactic. 
March 26-April 13. San Gerénimo. 
April 14-23, Purula. 
April 24-28. Panima. 
April 20-May 2. Sabo. 
May 3. San Miguel Tucuru. 
May 4-12. Chacoj, near Chamiquin, sometimes called 
La Hamaca (from the old suspended rope-bridge over 
the Rio Polochic) (about 500 feet). Tropical forest, 
with many palms (mainly Attalea cohune), which 
decrease in size as the Polochie is ascended. A 
new iron bridge in course of construction (in 1880). 
A very good entomological locality. 
May 13-18. Teleman, on the Rio Polochic, the upper 
limit of navigation for small boats from the Lake 
of Yzabal. Tropical forests, with many: palms, the 
leaves of the lofty Attalea cohune arching across the 
road. Culicide swarming. Unhealthy district. The 
‘ Howler’ frequently seen in the trees near the river. 
Some peculiar Syntomid- moths found amongst the 
prickly herbage. 
May 19-22. Panzos, on the Rio Polochie. 
forests, &c., as at Teleman. Willows on river-bank. 
Unhealthy district. My first attack of fever here. 
May 23. Danta, on northern shore of the Lake of 
Yzabal, about fourteen hours’ journey by small boat 
from Panzos. Many alligators and ‘ Howlers’ seen 
on my way down, manatees also noticed in the lake. 
Culicide swarming. 
May 24-25. Travelling up the Rio Polochic, two days, 
against stream. 
May 25-June 2. Panzos. Culicidee (especially a sooty- 
black species) so bad here, even by day, that it was 
almost impossible to do more than a few hours’ 
collecting at a time. Local name for them, 
‘zancudos.’ 
June 3-14. Senahu, travelling up from Panzos by way 
of Trece Aguas. [The American entomologists, 
Messrs. H. 8. Barber and E. A. Schwarz (of the U.S. 
National Museum at Washington) have visited this 
district during recent years, and they succeeded in 
obtaining various minute Coleoptera of the same 
species captured by myself in 1880.] 
June 15-21. San Juan. 
Tropical 
