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way home. V,e did stop once, at Km. 6£ from Bogota to take 

 many specimens of an Epilachna on a large composite, iden- 

 tified at the Institute as Montanda excelsa Ern. and on 

 Solanum scorpioidium (Rusby) . It was nearly dark when we 



reached Guasca and our head- 

 lights had been giving us 

 trouble; Moreno worked over 

 them and improved the situa- 

 tion. I was very tired when 

 we reached Garrera 8 fe at 8.l£. 



During the day, Clara had 

 taken the broken handbag to 

 the shoemaker almost next door, 

 mailed letters, and read EL 

 Tiempo in Parque Independencia. 

 After lunch she called for the 

 bag, found it ready and well 

 mended, called for the last 

 batch of photos and had her 

 hair done at the Instituto 

 Frances de Belleza in Calle 12. 



Ollas in Guasca market 



Feb. 21. We slept late and so were late at the Institute. 

 j y first job was to write up my notes on the trip, sort the 

 catch and pack the specimens for the return to l/ashington. 

 At the Institute I sorted Goccinellidae until noon. After 

 lunch we mailed some letters and 

 3 anuela helped Clara get some 

 paint spots off her hat. urillo 

 called for us and took us to Dr 

 Zulueta 's for tea. We arrived 

 much too early to the embarrass- 

 ment of both ourselves and our 

 hosts. However we had a pleasant 

 time. The house Tfas one of the 

 newer type, at Avenida 32, N« ll+- 

 I4.6. Dr Luis de Zulueta received 

 us in the front living room; Dona 

 Ines came down soon and moved us 

 into the adjoining room which was 

 teach lighter and brighter, with 

 a big bowl of small white flowers 

 on the table. Dr Zulueta spoke 

 in clear and simple Spanish and told us of his first visit 

 to Berlin as a student with no German at all. Re described 

 seeing masses of a coccinellid along the shores of the Med- 

 iterranean that must have been Coccinella septempunctata. 

 He also showed us a letter from his wife in New York with 

 some words cut out by the censor; "sin la guerra" he could 

 tell, knowing her writing so well. Soon his son came in; he 



Frailejones 



