NOV., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2QQ 



Itinerary of a Collecting Trip, Made Especially in 



Search of Dragonflies, in Central America. 



BY E. B. WILLIAMSON, Bluffton, Indiana. 



As the result of much planning and correspondence there 

 met on board the steamer Taunton, lying at the dock in New 

 Orleans, on January 5, 1905, the following party bound for a 

 collecting and sight seeing trip in Central America, especially 

 in GuatemalaX: Professor W. A. Kellerman, interested in para- 

 sitic fungi and tropical botany in general ; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. 

 Deam, interested in the higher plants and Lepidoptera ; Mr. 

 Newton Miller, interested in fish ; Professor J. S. Hine, inter- 

 ested in insects and especially Diptera ; and Mr. and Mrs. E. 

 B. Williamson, interested in dragonflies. 



During the trip collections in general were made, including 

 birds, reptiles and several groups of invertebrates. The follow- 

 ing itinerary, prepared at the request of Dr. Calvert, has for its 

 purpose facility of reference to the dragonflies (to which I 

 gave especial attention, collecting about 2700 specimens) which 

 have been sent to Dr. Calvert for study in connection with the 

 invaluable work he is doing for the Biologia Centrali- Americana. 

 In addition to my own collecting, the material sent to Dr. Cal- 

 vert includes collections in this order made by Professor Hine, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Chas. C. Deani and Mrs. E. B. Williamson. 

 Once in the tropics our party was much dispersed and in the 

 following notes I speak only for myself. 



January 9, 1905. Landed from steamship Taunton at Belize, 

 British Honduras, and spent about two hours, from eleven A. 

 M. to one P. M., collecting along ditches and bits of marshes 

 in and closely adjacent to the town. Weather rainy and 

 dragonflies not abundant. 



January 10, 1905.- Landed at Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, 

 and took train about nine A. M. for Gualan. Passed through 

 tropical swamp and wet tropical country for about sixty miles 

 to where the railroad crosses the Motagua River. A few miles 

 beyond this bridge, a region where the distinction between the 

 rainy season and dry season is well marked is reached. From 

 this point to El Rancho, the present inland terminus of the 

 Ferrocarril del Norte de Guatemala, the country at this sea- 



