K Pearson 1969 1 bird, 4-5 scorpions, 2 mice, 1 larger rodent (vizcacha?), grasshopper, other insects with long black ovipositors. July 10, 1969 + km. ENE Pucusana, Dept. Lima, Peru. The Davis children and Betty arrived quite early and when Carl returned from his traps we set of down to road to lay out OP's grid. Betty and Didi and I took a long walk about the outskirts of the area - following back up the dry wash to where a road comes in from the apple orchard in the irrigated valley beyond the Lilladsin area. We then undertook to write letters and make identifiers on all the posts put out by the rest of the gang. Drove back to Papa Leon for lunch and after lunch OP took Steve off shooting up in the valley 2 of Papa Leon while Betty, Carl, Didi and I went and fished lilies and dug up some of the wild begonias for Betty to give to her parasitologist friend Sarmiento. Spent the evening planning our approach to the grid study tomorrow. July 11, 1969 + km. ENE Pucusana, Dept. Lima, Peru. Settled down on the grid area this morning to assay the wildlife, etc. I was specializing on the Lilladsin. The main species (the only one here, perhaps?) grows about - " tall. The sharp, cupped leaves come off the stem in a spiral - about 3 leaves to complete 360°. An average plant has a cluster