15 July Went to A.A*A* office, took out $300 equipment insurance 

 Thursday and sickness and accident insurance; changed $60,00 



to pesos; got tourist papers application. 

 Collected in Laredo, Texas: 



At yellow flowers on "bashes in courtyard of San 



Antonio Motel: 3 Libytheids, Xylocopids (2 large, 



"blue-black; k medium size, with yellow bands on sides 



of abdomens; 1 with yellow pubescence & irri descent 



gree«-black abdomen; 3 all-iridescent blue-black), 1 



Megachilid. 



In pool: 2 Polistes 



On shrabbeiy: 2 Coreids, 3 I^ygaeids ( Oncopeltis )» 

 Reduviid, small Lygaeid, 3 stingless bees, 1 small 

 acalypterate fly. 



Left Laredo, Texas, 9:^0 A.M. 18212 



Crossed United States - Mexico border 



Arrived Monterrey, Neuvo Leon, Mexico, at dusk* Found 

 and stayed at Siesta Motel, about 4 miles south of 

 city limits on Mexico rte* 85 called La Estanzuela, 



No blacklighting 



Nuevo Laredo - Monterrey Mexico 85 



