32 ENTOMOLOGICAI, NEWS. [Fcb./lQ 



Caballo Blanco, "13 miles beyond Retalhuleu on the branch line to 

 Champerico: it consists of grazing country with a little vegetation 

 along the rivers, but no forest near at hand, and the soil is humid and 

 very fertile." 



Cayuga, 23.4 miles from Puerto Barrios and a little west of Tene- 

 dores. A farm house recently abandoned was fitted up by the United 

 Fruit Company and placed at their disposal; it was their Guatemalan 

 headquarters. "The house stands on a hill by itself, 150 feet above 

 the railway and river, with the most glorious views in every direction. 

 The chief veranda faces the south with the winding [Motagua] river 

 threading through thousands of acres of bananas, limited by virgin 

 forests, and with the mountains of Honduras in the distance; to the 

 north we are close to forest clad hills and almost all my day collecting 

 is along [their] trails and streams. The elevation of the [railway] 

 station is 107 feet and the forest ridge about 400 feet higher. The 



hills on the south side are covered with dense tropical forest, 



no pines at all." On October 7, 1915, he wrote: *T cannot understand 

 why with the heat and rain there are not more things flying." On 

 April 30, 1917: "The conditions here (climatic) are still disastrous and 

 not an insect is to be seen except a few wasps. Not a drop of rain 

 has fallen since I last wrote and all the weeds around the place are 

 dead and dried up and there are extensive forest fires, fanned into 

 energy by strong easterly gales which blow all afternoon and evening.' 

 Chejel, in Baja Vera Paz, eleven miles from Tucuru, elevation 3100 

 feet. "I have had five weeks at Chejel, where I have been visiting 

 most charming friends" [in June, etc., 1917]- 



Iguana, "a flag station, 72.3 miles from Barrios, elevation 493 feet, 

 and at the beginning of the dry section of the Motagua valley; the 

 country is hilly, with scattered pines and swampy in places. We only 

 went there once for a few hours and found your Odonata flying in 

 the wet places." 



Joaquina, "a flag station, 170 miles from Barrios, elevation 2269 feet; 

 a dry district owing to steep mountains with muddy ditches along track 

 in rainy season, little vegetation and some 200 feet above river. We 

 were delayed there several hours by a land-slide, so I put my net on 

 and caught a few insects." 



Montufar, "44 miles from Barrios (Motagua valley)." 

 Oneida, "Motagua valley near Morales, 25 miles from Barrios, eleva- 

 tion 300 feet." 



Polochic River. Writing Aug. 17, 1917 : "I am still in Vera Paz 



since a week I have worked every night with my lamp until 3 A. M. 

 Barnes is doing the day work and rides nine miles down the moun- 

 tains to* the Polochic River and gets in several hours' collecting." 

 Purulha "is the correct spelling, not Purula, as Champion spells it." 



