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R. Zweifel
Napa and Sonoma Counties,
California
Mar. 23, 1952
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Today with Keith and Cynthia Murray I went into the north bay area to collect Anceles for Chuck Lowe.
Our first stop was at the Robert Louis Stevenson Home, Mt. St. Helena, Napa Co. One small Anieles flavignmetatus was found under a board or mud beside a water tank. We were seeing the area with just three salamanders when I turned over one last board in front of the home and found six flies under it, an adult and five juveniles. This board seemed no different from dozens of others we had already turned within a few yards of the spot. The board was resting on leaf litter, as were another board under which one more juvenile was found. In addition to the eight Anieles captured here, thus Ensating was taken and many Batrachosega seen.
Driving back toward Calistoga, at 2 mi. NW Calistoga, 610', Napa Co., we noticed a tree fallen on a grassy hillside and decided to investigate the top and branches with the thought of possibly finding a ring-neck snake. When we left the area about 1½ hours later, we had taken 50 Anieles flavignmetatus, 12 A. lugubris, 1 Hyla regilla, 1 Xenorhinos micrornatus, 97 Eumeces siblonisoma, 1 Diadaphis and a Hypsoglena.
The spot of collection is on a ridge