TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Butterflies with brushes of hair at the tail and on the wings — Clear- 

 winged butterflies — A brilliant hover fly — Animals of the " Bloody- 

 Ditch" — Blackfly {Simulium) bites — Collecting microscopic insects — 

 Common plants and weeds — Living fences — Flowers in the plaza. 



Chapter VI. West and North of Cartago 90-iiS 



Continental divide, El Alto — Laguna de Ochomogo — Inhospitable 

 farmer — On La Carpintera — Tres Rios — Scissor-tail flycatchers — The 

 Reventado River — Clear-winged butterflies in shade and sun — Mim- 

 icking butterflies — Butterfly and milkweed — Lanes on Irazu — Straw- 

 berry farm at San Rafael — Tierra Blanca, a typical house and meals — 

 Peaches — Roadside flowers, moths and humming-birds — Laguna del 

 Reventado — Sabanilla, Indian relics in graves — Cot and its waterfall. 



Chapter VII. The Volcano Irazu 1 16-141 



Contour and southern slopes — Eruption of 1723 — Ascents in rainy season 

 — Jimenez lecheria — Sunrise — Oak forest — Cinder cone — "Islands of 

 vegetation" — Dead trees — Conspicuous plants on cinders — Craters, 

 flowers blooming in them — Forest in rain — Ascent in dry season — 

 Camp in crater — Summit of Irazu — Circuit of crater — Plan of crater, 

 daughter and granddaughter craters — Elevations — Flowers blooming 

 in dry season — Indian rattle. 



Chapter VIII. Lower Neighbors of Cartago 142-168 



Concepcion de Cartago — San Isidro del Tejar, "beehive road" — Tobosi 

 — Butterfly migration — Native clay-pits — Ticks — "Bad cattle" — 

 Agua Caliente — Jocosal — Rio Navarro — Dulce Nombre — Orosi — 

 Beautiful bugs — Paraiso — Cachi — Pefia Blanca — Rio Oro — Banks of 

 the Reventazon — Orosi falls. 



Chapter IX. Juan Vinas — Around the Laguna 169-183 



Juan Vinas a favorable locality for the naturalist — Different altitudes 

 easily accessible — Our cabin and its immediate surroundings — Lumi- 

 nous insects — The laguna and its flora — A lichen-like katydid — 

 Solitary wasp and katydid — Yellow-tailed orioles (oropendolas) and 

 their nests — Birds around the laguna — Cecropla trees — "Eye of the 

 ox" — December wild flowers — Leaf-cutting ants. 



Chapter X. Juan Vinas — Above the Laguna 184-190 



Ascending the road to Juan Vinas village — A muddy road, its butterflies 

 and blossoms — A stretched-out Ascalaphid — Place-fascination for a 

 dragonfly — Hellgrammltes' eggs — A grand mountain view — The 

 Messrs. Cochenour's beneficio — Sugar-cane plantation — Messrs. 

 Schaus and Barnes' work on Costa RIcan Lepldoptera — Village of 

 Juan Vinas — El Sitlo. 



