Identifier: yearofcostarican00calv (find matches)
Title: A year of Costa Rican natural history
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Calvert, Amelia Smith, b. 1876 Calvert, Philip Powell, b. 1871 joint author
Subjects: Natural history -- Costa Rica Costa Rica -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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taining many fine largetrees. The current here was swift and the stream was poorin dragonflies. On May 24 A. obtained a stone-fly and twostone-fly exuviae, small may-fly larvae, a couple of species ofcaddis-worms, a galgulid (toad-shaped bug)—all similarin general appearance to forms in the eastern United States. On the same day some Ithomiine butterflies, Hymenitisoto (with clear transparent wings spreading two and one-eighth inches, whose margins and veins are blackish, andwith an oblique milky-white band and milky-white spotson the front wings) and Dircenna klugii (already mentionedin Chapter V) were found only in dark shady spots in thesewoods. The transparency of their wings made them muchmore difficult to see, whether in flight or at rest, than otherbutterflies whose wings were of the normal style—coloredand not transparent. Dr. Sharp, in the Cambridge NaturalHistory (Vol. VI, p. 346), quotes Wallace briefly as making asimilar observation on these butterflies. However on Mav
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a . ^ -v^ S^ 5 S ^ PC g a s s c J^ O ^ • 2 s V O <3 ^ To face p. q6 WEST AND NORTH OF CART AGO 97 29, while Ithomiines (Ithomia heraldica, see page 79,Dircenna klugii, Episcada salvinia, very similar to E. apuleiadescribed on page 79 but a little larger, and Mechanitisdoryssus) were taken in shady lanes near this part of thestream, a male of D. klugii was caught in bright sunshine andtwo males and a female of this species were taken in brightsunlight at Cartago on August 21. Ithomiines (the speciesnot recorded in our notes nor represented in our specimens)were seen flying in bright sunshine both in the morning (11A. M.) and about i P. M. of May 30, in the same generallocality, and in bright sunshine on a road above TierraBlanca on July 12. In this last case the country was openfor many rods on both sides of the road and the wind wasblowing strongly, which may account for this occurrence.Of D. klugii we have four specimens, three males and onefemale, expressly labeled as having be

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