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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he front edge a little before the wing-tip. The bloody ditch harbored quite a varied fauna. OnJune 17 P. dredged up some snails, a few small fishes (notover two inches), leeches, a large number of black orsand-fly larvae (Simuliidae), dragonfly larvae, and manyindividuals of the bug Deinostoma dilatatum an inch long.These last are interesting on account of the habit of carryingthe eggs—to the number of twenty to a hundred—on theback. The eggs stand side by side and are attached bytheir tail ends, for when the time of hatching approachestwo dark spots indicating the eyes of the young may be seenunder the shell of that end of the egg which is toward theobserver. We took one of the egg-bearing bugs indoorsand kept it in a glass of water; some of the eggs hatched andthe young at once swam actively around in the water, butthe parent died before more than seven or eight of the eggshad hatched. On other days we found two kinds of frogsin our net. We wondered whether the leeches were able
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Guitite—Jcnistus arborescens—in flower.Terciopelo de Santa Maria—Miconia aruginosa. To face p. So

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