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more or less open campo, interspersed with tracts of forest. Nearly 

 all the Mutillidse were collected on sandy campo land, whether the 

 label states the fact or not. 



" Corumba (Matto Grosso), is on the west side of the River Para- 

 guay. The land is a very dry, calcareous soil, with a scrubby 

 growth full of cacti and other thorny plants. True forest is found 

 some miles back at Piedra Blanca. 



" Mararu (Para), 6 miles south of Santarem, a clearing in the 

 forest ; soil sandy. There is campo land less than two miles away, 

 and some of the Mutillida? may have been collected on it. 



" Minas, Car, — This label is placed on n number of specimens 

 from Minas Geraes, which were given to me by Sr. Carvalho, of Rio 

 de Janeiro. 



" Para (Para), on the Para River, properly the enlarged mouth 

 of the Tocantins. The site of the city was originally covered with 

 dense forest, but it is now more or less cleared for several miles 

 around ; soil sandy. True campo land occurs within twenty miles 

 to the south. 



" Paracary (Para), on the north side of the Amazons, nearly 

 opposite Santarem, on a lake which lies in the Amazonian flood- 

 plain. Tlie land back of the lake is sandy campo, very similar to 

 that at Santarem and Chapada. 



" Piedra Blanca, or in Portuguese, Pedra Branca, is 5 miles 

 west of Corumba, and just within the confines of Bolivia. The 

 land here is heavy forest, with clearings ; but it is quite close to the 

 scrubby growth surrounding Corumba. 



" Rio de Janeiro. — In the region of the Brazilian Coast Range ; 

 the mountain sides were originally covered with forest, but there 

 was more or less open and arid land near the seashore and among 

 rocks. 



" San Salvador (Pernambuco), a plantation 30 miles inland 

 from the city of Pernambuco, and not over 500 ft. above sea-level ; 

 sandy soil with open forest. 



" Santarem (Pant), on the River Tapajos, just above its mouth 

 in the Amazon. The land immediately about the town is sandy 

 campo ; the forest limit is three or four miles south. 



" St. Catherina (Santa Catherina). — The specimens so labelled 

 were collected near the town of Santa Catherina, on an island of the 

 same name, close to the coast. The island was originally covered 

 with forest, but has been cleared near the town. 



