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Lee Arnold
1937
Meotoma lepida
near Smith Creek Cave, 5,600ft., Mt.
Horizh, White Pine Co., Nevada.
June4 In a trapline set along the flat east
of camp I caught 10 Meotoma lepida.
Nearly all of those were immature — six
were ♂ and four ♀. Many of them were
cought where there was no sign of a nest
or burrow. As I setout a line of exactly
100 traps directly down the middle of
the canyon at an average of 40 ft.
apart I think it would be valuable to note
the exact trap each of the rats was
cought in, the relative age, the sex and
general idea of the height where the trap
was placed.
1. [19]; ♀; Imm; Under overhanging rock
2. [20]; ♀; Imm; Beside pile of debris next to
creek — Sand, gravel and small rocks.
3. [21]; ♂; Imm; Beside rock (5'x4'x2'), next
to prickly pear cactus.
4. [42]; ♀; Imm; Open space 10 yds. west of nest.
5. [43]; ♀; Imm; Under Artemesia, ten feet south
of rocks with a suggestion of nest.
6. [46]; ♂; Adult; This animal was still alive, It.
had drug the trap 10 feet. It was
near a particle nest.
7. [57]; ♂; Imm; About 100 yards east of #46.
8. [81]; ♂; Imm; Found eight yards south of