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until time for onces at the hotel* We went back to the 

 plaza to collect aphids and coccinellids that we had seen 

 earlier. Took two species of Coccinellina which were 

 feeding on the aphids which were attacking the leaves of 

 linden* Ra&L went across the street to a bookstore and 

 returned with a copy of Kim (in Spanish) to read after 

 going to bed, Castro is a small town built almost entire- 

 ly on hi$i ground overlooking the water. The waterfront 



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Waterfront of Castro 



is lined with warehouses and is where the railroad which 

 connects Castro with Ancud starts. Dinner at the hotel was 

 fair and we went to bed shortly afterward. 



Feb. 22. Woke up to find it raining quite hard, my first 

 bad day since leaving Washington. However, it let up just 

 as we were ready to go to the station to take the autocar- 

 ril for Ancud. We were late and so had to take the second 

 car which was really fortunate. The first car goes through 

 to Ancud without stops and had we gone on it there would 

 have been no chance to collect anywhere along the line. 

 The second car carries the payroll for the maintenance of 

 way men of the railroad. We left Castro nearly on time and 

 by 9.15 there was blue sky in the south. We stopped where- 

 ever there were men to be paid, sometimes at a station and 

 sometimes between stations. Collecting would have been 

 better if it had not rained so hard earlier. At Mocopulli 

 I found some carabids and a small colony of termites in a 

 bit of wood lying beside the track. Snyder later identified 

 the species as Porotermes quadricollis (Ramb.). About noon 

 we stopped at Puntra long enough for lunch. There were two 

 restaurants, perhaps we got the poorer of the two. In all, 



