WEST AND NORTH OF CART A GO lOI 



and the ears piled up ready for the ox-carts or else the field 

 was already plowed or plowing. 



There were some small collections of houses here and 

 there on the mountain as well as the villages of Cot, Tierra 

 Blanca and Llano Grande. An intricate network of lanes 

 and roads followed the outlines of the potreros and we fre- 

 quently explored the smaller byways. Well-traveled roads 

 led to the villages, the one to Tierra Blanca in particular 

 continuing as an excellent cartroad all the way up to the 

 Jimenez Lecheria (at 9000 feet) and thence toward the east, 

 and these main roads kept their own direction so that one 

 knew where one would arrive. But the smaller lanes — often 

 shaded so that one did not see readily down the mountain — ■ 

 had a habit of running up hill then turning and running down 

 again and it was impossible to tell without trial whether any 

 lane would lead in the desired direction or not. They were 

 delightful places for walking, nevertheless. On a bright, 

 breezy morning in May many species of butterflies flew or 

 were blown into or across these lanes. Scarabaeid beetles 

 were abundant, at least as individuals. We saw a great 

 buzzing metallic green thing suggesting Jllorhina, a species 

 looking like our own rose-bettle {Macrodactylus) and one 

 or two others of the same size or a little larger, all but the 

 first-named falling on one's hat or clothing almost con- 

 stantly. 



The rose-beetle.-like species were also taken at Cartago 

 on June 17 and July 5. Compared with our rose-beetle of 

 the eastern United States [Macrodactylus subspinosus) they 

 are slightly larger, being about three-eighths of an inch long, 

 the head and thorax a more vivid green which is also metallic 

 in its reflections, while the wing-covers are a deeper and 

 redder brown. In one species (AI. suavis) each elytron bears 

 two distinct rows of very short whitish hairs similar to those 

 which cover much of the upper surface and the lower sur- 



