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This situation is here the particular home of the lizard 

 cnenudophorus 6-lineata. It is particularly abundant between 

 the Rio Grande and the Rio Puerco. The leopard lizard is 

 also at home here as is the prairie rattlesnake. It is the most 

 common snake on the mesa. 



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Stenopalmatus fasciatus. Quite common under cow 

 manure and stones. Extends up into the lower canons. This 

 harmless "Child of the Earth" is regarded by most of the 

 settlers of both Spanish and Anglo-Saxon descent, as being 

 deadiy in its bite. 



COLEOPTERA 



Eleodes hispilabris, Say., The most abundant of the 

 genus here and in the Bigelovia Association. Also in the 

 Valley and in the meadows below Acoma. 



g E. leconti, Jlorn. 



. E. longicollis, Lee. Also very abundant. One of these 

 beetles when caught and held on its back squirted its ill- 

 smelling fluid eight inches. When disturbed but not held 

 they do not eject this fluid to a distance but elevate the 

 abdomen and force out a drop which clings to the tip. They 

 are clumsy creatures and in their efforts to stand on their 

 heads they sometime fall over forwards. 



E. carbonaria, Say. Eats pollen sometimes, not a common 

 habit in this genus. 



Eusattus convexus, Lee. 



These large black, Tenebrionidae form a very large and 

 characteristic feature of the fauna of this region. The^ are 

 true children of the desert. Their elytra are grown together 

 and to their backs, an adaptation to the fierce sand storms 

 of the mesa. These wind storms drifting sand and gravel 

 with them are a source of grave danger to the fauna of the 

 region, even to man himself. The author has several times 

 been caught out on the mesa when one struck the region 

 with its usual suddenness and has stopped to observe the 

 behavior of the animals. The prairie horned larks sought 

 the shelter of the friendly arroyo banks. (The author has 

 picked up these birds on the mesa during one of these 

 storms. They were so exausted by the buffetting that they 



