March 27, 1974 Belleduni Tuesday Did sponsor Acari. Cant one snake, mo. OP didn't catch any the Oryzops we were after, either - with my more traps, he caught a Phyllotis davisi and a little mouse (?). So we pulled out promptly and made our way downtown. Picked up a school teacher who wanted to ride to Acari, and got a lecture from him about foreign countries exploiting Peru. From Acari we took the road north that looked like it would go to Belleduni. After passing a group of houses + olive orchards that we thought were Belleduni, we came to a crude airstrip with a road leading from it into the hills to the east. A little further north we saw it: very dry vegetation with a variety of flora in it, extending on both sides of the road. This made us consider again the road leading out from the airfield, and we found up that road a beautiful piece of 2-lane highway! Clearly someone started to develop some mines in this area + also had the project. Well, but the shells of buildings and the roads are left, along with it to the nicest flora we have seen yet. Large cacti (several kinds) dominate the vegetation, many flowering plants (no yucca!!), many grasses. The dead stalks of last year's vegetation are everywhere, indicating that the flora was a different composition. I set out all the sniptrips (about 50) - a great many in the cactus complexes. Saw a 1/4" snake, orange-brown on the back and about