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able boats were the native dugouts. A number of species of crabs 

 and shrimps were taken here, some of which Dr. Schmitt beheves 

 will prove to be new. A most interesting assemblage or association 

 of marine animals was found to be inhabiting old worm galleries. 

 Dr. Schmitt thought the coast around Santa Elena, if he could have 

 given the time to it. would probably have proved to suj^port the 

 richest fauna of all the regions that he had visited in the past two 

 years, but his time being limited, he was obliged to return to Guaya- 

 quil on September 19. He says. " We started early Sunday morning 

 and between auto and train were under way from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. 



Fig. 98. — Paita, Peru, showing the rocky nature of the coast. 



just covering 90 miles of country. It took us two hours to make 

 the last 20 miles." Dr. Schmitt had hoped to visit Quito, but owing 

 to the great loss of time in getting to and from Santa Elena he 

 found it impossible. While at Guayaquil, Dr. Schmitt did some 

 excellent collecting in the so-called Salada. an arm of the ocean which 

 reaches up behind the city. There the black flies were a terrible 

 torment, and he suffered severely from their attacks, but to oft'set 

 in a measure this inconvenience he procured a species of Upogchia, 

 the little shrimp that bores holes in rocks. This genus of shrimps 

 had not until then been found on the west coast of South America. 

 Here also were taken some pinnotherid crabs which are symbiotic 

 in the shells of mollusks. 



He left Guayaquil October 3 and arrived at Paita, Peru, late the 

 same day. He says, " Here we drop into a holiday in memory of 



