a clump near PB on the trail to Centrose, none of the flowering clumps had new shoots. The dead clump at the Corro in Puerto Belsit is still standing looking a bit worse for wear (see photo and photos of earlier years). El Ahualo is dated, on the sign, 1410. yellow Azara is in flower at PB, and Erica cuneiflora heard 3 groups of parrots (or parotas 3 times) between Friest PB. Jesus Roth, manager of Hotel Paula, was born at Paula about [illegible] yrs ago. He says there used to be 500 people in the valley, population now is 75. He did not know that mice are here. Says there were lots of coffee until about 15 yrs ago. The tabanids are much more abundant in summer. The roads are covered with helicoptera (drosophilae) in summer. He had a pickled large beetle that he said was the female of a species in which the males have long horns, and that there used to be thousands of them here. The guava bombus, he says, flowered about 35 years ago, and this was a ratada. He says he has seen Monte del monte toro (rare) ad viscocarbas. When the bell shop, Ramon, saw our collection of slime, he seemed to recognize Geotres, distinguished it from the others, and said it was abundant in the potato fields near his home near Paychue. There were few Araneas along the trail where our traps were at Paula. The only bombus there