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Chapter XV. Santa Clara 268-297 



Plains of Santa Clara — Journey to Guapiles, La Junta, oropendolas — 

 Salvador — Collecting in the forest — The largest living dragonfly — A 

 bold butterfly — Forest dragonflies, relations of intermingled species — 

 Brilliant moths — Bobo — Florida road — Unexpected dragonfly — 

 Beetles at light — Brightly colored flowers — La Emilia — Bees in orchid 

 baskets — Snakes in bromeliads — Guacimo — Banana cutting — Dis- 

 tribution of dragonflies in banana fields — Procession of "white ants" 

 — Butterfly swarms — Summary of Santa Clara collections. 



Chapter XVL The Banana River Country 298-322 



Philadelphia South — Cockroach and wasp — Traveling by "trolley" — 

 Cieniguita River, Iguana, Egg-laying dragonflies — Dragonflies in 

 flocks — Agua Buena Creek — Foraging ants — Abundance of lizards 

 and frogs — Bearesem East — On the Banana River — Oropendolas — 

 Westfalia Laguna, water hyacinths — Wary dragonflies — Eye-size and 

 habits of insects — Caimans — Thorny acacia — Rubber trees — Plants 

 and animals common to Banana River and Cartago. 



Chapter XVIL Alajuela and the Volcano Poas 323-359 



Heredia — Barba — Alajuela — Beneficio El Brazil — Costa Rican timber 

 trees — Preparation of coffee for market and export — Fine discrimina- 

 tion of coff'ees — Trees near Alajuela, Guayabo, Jocote, Vainilla, Bull's 

 horn thorn — Hoja de Pa to — Clicking butterflies — Dragonflies of shade 

 and of bright light — Social wasps — Orb-weaving spiders — Roads — 

 El Cerro — Extracting sugar — Waterfalls of the Poas and the Caracha 

 — Motmots — Manzana rosa — Feast of the Immaculate Conception — 

 Vegetation in the wet and in the dry seasons — Madera negra — Guavos 

 and Cuajiniquil — Shedding of leaves at diff'erent times in the year — 

 Weather predictions, the pintas — Carrizal — Upland pastures — Mon- 

 key's comb — Eruption of Poas — Visit to the volcano — San Pedro de 

 Poas — Crater of Poas. 



Chapter XVIII. Turrucares and the Rio Grande de Tarcoles. . . . 360-385 

 "Diana Club," the Custodio's house — Making of tortillas — Meals — 

 Scorpions — Familiar weeds — Bull's horn thorns — Peripatus — Names 

 for dragonflies — Butterfly swarms — Fossil shells — Guinea corn — 

 Dragonflies with gaily colored eyes — Rio Tizate — Roble tree — Caimlto 

 and nance, popular names — Peculiar pods — Flying earwigs — Black 

 boulders — Poro-poro trees — Ant-lions — <3uebrada de Salas — Atenas 

 — Yellow cortess — Cebadilla — Maraiion — Slight earthquake. 



Chapter XIX. Surubres and Orotina 386-401 



Journey to Bonnefil farm — Farmhouse and surroundings — Superstitions 

 and traditions — Guapinol — Cacao — Jicaras and guacals — Path to 



