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lected during the day. The weather conditions are perfect for 

 collecting, clear skies and little or no breeze. 



January 28, 1905. By mule from Sanarate to Guatemala 

 City, forty-seven miles. A few dragonflies were collected 

 along the trail. 



January 29, 1905. Sightseeing about Guatemala City. 

 Weather clear and cool. Pantala flavcscens seen at the princi- 

 pal cemetery of the city. 



January 30, 1905. Journeyed on Ferrocarril Central de 

 Guatemala from Guatemala City to Escuintla. Collected along 

 a stream a few miles south of Guatemala City, while the train 

 stopped a few minutes at a station, and again at Laguna, the 

 railroad station at the place where the railroad crosses Lake 

 Amatitlan. 



January 31, 1905. Collected during the forenoon along a 

 small stream near Escuintla. Escuintla, 1248 feet above sea 

 level, is a nourishing town in a rich and beautiful country. 

 Insects were abundant, the flora varied. Left Escuintla about 

 noon by railroad and went to Santa Lucia where we arrived 

 about two P. M. Santa Lucia is about a mile from the rail- 

 road. During the afternoon collected about open places in 

 woods, banana fields and along roads where Libellulines were 

 flying abundantly. 



February i, 1905. In the morning collected along the river 

 east of town and in the afternoon along a ravine west of town. 



February 2, 1905, was spent in this ravine. Weather ideal 

 'for collecting, the mornings being cloudless from sunrise. 



February 3, 1905. Along a stream and its two tributaries 

 east of Mazatenango, with an elevation of 1085 feet. Condi- 

 tions similar to those at Santa Lucia. 



February 4, 1905. Collected for twenty minutes in the 

 morning along a river west of Santa Maria, and in the after- 

 noon in a mangrove swamp just back from the beach and just 

 west of San Jose.* Mrs. Beam and Mrs. Williamson spent 

 February 2nd, 3rd and 4th at Escuintla where they did some 

 collecting. 



* All the towns visited on the Pacific slope were reached from (iuate- 

 mala City by the I'Yrrocarril Central de ("natciual.i. 



