FERD. NEVERMANN 
San Jose, ..Ja.nua.ry.. 1.4....I‘.29 
Costa Rica 
Apartado 1122 
Dear Dankest er: ~ f 
iour letter with the little beetle arrived well and 
excuse, that I did not answer right at once. I was working on the Cucui 
id&e, which I had here from Washington and Hamburg to be determined 
and wished, to finish the work. As i told you, 1 got some from London, 
Types from Sharp, to compare mine with them and after all resulted 
15 new arp&sdmt&Kx species.Only the genus Telephanus 1 worked up to now. 
The little beetle, you sent, certainly is a . Staphfflinida e 
of the genus Phi o e or ora probably, I am not too certain, as mine are 
not worked thru as yet. 1 am constantly sending different families 
over to Europe and the States and everytime new ones result out of the 
lots. Hay you occasionally write me, where you found it, besides, do 
you wish it back? I mean on a piant, on which if you know. I suppose 
you found the Staphylinid on the ground between rubbish. 
The publication of the Goryanthe s I am not able to give 
it to you, it may b®, that Schlechter did not finish publish it, as he 
was very sick and died soon after, a second flower, 1 sent him, arrived 
in Berlin a few days after his death. 1 put you the letter, he wrote 
me and you may send it to lines. He got also a blothom from me by St and - 
ley, to whom I sent it in alcohol, in my oppinion the only way, to 
; keep them good, efcen if they loose a. little of the co^lomr. To dry and 
to press them is not possible. 
I did not loose any cuttings, but lost 5000 stems at leas 
by the water and wind. The cuttings are now very small and I think 
most of my bananas will die out, the mud is laying too high on them. 
The farms gain by it, no doubt, but at first it is a draw-back for one 
year end after we had it in January, it was too mue&, to have it in 
November again, fust now,you should not have sold Mesopotamia, it will 
recover next year. I allways wished to buy it from you, but as I had 
Castilla in administration, I did not want to rais suspicious feelings- 
by delivering fruit at the same platform on my account, you may under¬ 
stand, how I mean it. 1 am sorry, that you loose the first crop or all 
at 52 Miles, I think it also doubt full, that the bridge will be put bac 
bach again. The rail rlipyi looks aw full all the way down and the road 
is hard. I walked it up after I was caught by the water in the Farm 
and will have to go down again soon. 
I wrote thes letter in a hurry and see an awful! ammount 
of mis f akes but hope you will understand it. Any beetle you ever should 
find and could spare, will be Wellcome here to be joined at the collec¬ 
tion. I hope to see you some day at my residence. 1 know, you are at 
Goffeepicking now perhaps one day. To morrow 1 am going for 4 days 
up to the Poas to collect there, Plusiotes shpuld be out allready. 
ff)y • 
With kindest regards 
yours faithfully 
