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rious places, are not absolutely or relatively large. The 

 largest eyes of all our Costa RIcan Lepidoptera are those 

 of some Sphinges and of the great Noctuid Thysania agrip- 

 pina, but even they are not nearly as large as those of Gyna- 

 cantha gracilis, in spite of the heavier bodies and greater 

 wing-spread of these moths. 



Searching for these various forest species kept me until 

 three o'clock, when I retraced my steps to the lower reser- 

 voir, mounted and rode back to Bearesem West Farmhouse 

 and there told Senor Vivo that I thought it too late to go 

 to the potrero; then I returned along the tracks to Mr. 

 Veitch's. There were many hawks of several species in this 

 region at the time of my visit and to-day, as on other days, 

 they often sat upon the tops of the telephone wire poles 

 which were usually rails set up in the ground. I never saw 

 these hawks pay any attention to the flocks of dragonflies 

 which were so common along the tracks, although these 

 insects have often been found in hawks' stomachs in Europe 

 and in the United States, 



In the evening Oscar, Mr. Veitch's colored house boy, 

 killed a "zorro" that was troubling the chickens and as I 

 did not know what a zorro was, it was brought for me to 

 look at. It proved to be an opossum and at Mr. Veitch's 

 suggestion Oscar cleaned the skull for me. It agrees with the 

 description of that of Richmond's opossum {Didelphis rich- 

 mondi) originally described from Greytown, Nicaragua, and 

 from San Jose, Costa Rica. On another evening (Novem- 

 ber 7) a scorpion {Centrums bicolor) three inches long, ap- 

 peared in the office and was killed. 



On November 10 two "boys" took me on a trolley past 

 Bearesem West and Beverly Farms to the Bananito River. 

 The last part of the track lay in Bananito Farm, belonging 

 not to the Fruit Company but to Mr. Minor Keith. The 

 trolley boys had orders to wait for me at the Bananito until 



