378 A YEAR OF COSTA RICAN NATURAL HISTORY 



the prettiest of its kind that I saw in Costa Rica. The 

 stream, for the distance visited by us, was shaded with high 

 trees and bushes, beyond which on each side were open 

 fields. We found a number of interesting adult dragonflies 

 and the larva of Heteragrion, hitherto unknown and for 

 which I had spent many hours of search in different places. 



A small hotel near Atenas station was headquarters from 

 April 8 to 13. It was in part two-storied, constructed of 

 wood with corrugated iron roof and the front was colored 

 light blue. In the lower story were kitchen, dining-room, 

 bar and general store, with the owner's private room and 

 enclosed porch. In the second floor over the store were 

 also one or more private rooms while over the remainder 

 were four tiny and one larger rooms; the latter held three 

 beds, the others one bed each. All four rooms opened on a 

 well-shaded porch but were windowless. A single thickness 

 of rough-planed boards divided these rooms from each other 

 and there was no whitewash or interior finish whatever. 

 Their rear walls were of corrugated iron. 



The building stood on a little elevation behind and above 

 the station but within a stone's throw of it. It faced nearly 

 southeast and commanded a fine view, as from the front the 

 Candelaria, Santa Maria Dota, Tinamaste and other moun- 

 tains were visible, and from the eastern end of the porch 

 Barba in the distance and the bridge over the Rio Grande 

 de Tarcoles were plainly in sight. From the bridge the 

 deep canon of the river passes westward on the other side 

 of the station and parallel with the railroad, but only its 

 upper part was visible from the hotel as the gorge is too 

 deep to show the river. 



Continuous with the station to the west was the bodega 

 or freight house and to the east the eating shed. East of 

 this again was a taquilla or drinking booth, while separated 

 by a little interval from the latter was a well-built cylindrical 



