Field notes, v1523
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at dusk: Doe 3 musing calm, clear. Heavy dew. Caught 3 also longi and 1 audesory. Caught 3 Onyx and 2 also longi, all 3 Onyx were under or close to the cliff of dead bamboo. One of them was a pregnant 14.5g f! On several occasions we heard, briefly, a pepper-like frog chorus down the road about 100 yds. When we investigated we found a Darwin's frog in a small hollow puddle (in) with grass blades along one side. It was in the water when first seen, but climbed out when disturbed, then returned to the water. A larger deeper pool was nearby with bamboo hanging over it, some tadpoles in it, and a frog nearby (5842). Drove back to Bardeelo. Weight of 2 large grubs from under bamboo, weighed out of formalin: 3.61g and 3.00 g. They are Scarabaeidae = "white grubs" see Paul O. Richter The large red flesh beetles collected at Lago Heronso and moving up all of an owl pellet there are Cerambycidae, probably Osypeltus quadrispinosus (according to John Chansow) Richter? a letter from Paul Richter dated 1/27/79 says the 2 big grubs sent him are lucanids (family Lucanidae), "very close, if not Lucanus." "Most lucanids feed on or within dead wood. There is one species of Lucanus, however, in Wisconsin, which damages the living roots of young trees in forest nurseries." The other small grubs sent him are [illegible] Scarabaeidae sub-family Melolonthinae "undoubtedly an undescribed genus." The