Field notes, v580
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Paul DeBenedetti 1960 Dec 26 Manzanillo, Colima, to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mex. Colima. Shortly after we passed Manzanillo, Gay stopped for a high white butterfly, which we got - a loosey morpho. I also got two blues and a hairstreak and Gay got a beautiful shipper. (Guy bought a baby coati mundi this morning in Manzanillo). From here we went on trying to find Pueblo Juarez, to get Rang sin loae, but it wasn't marked on the highway and we missed it. I did see los Amoles, a town in dry open thorn scrub. There were no good looking sites in this area. We stopped once but I didn't get any thing. In the city of Colima Guy got another morpho, this one perfect. At the house of Figero Gigavis I bought a Indigo snake and a Mastigophis for 22 pesos. From here we went to a spot about [illegible] mi beyond the turnoff to Colima. Here we stopped for a large tarantula. Gene went rock turning and got a beautiful reddish-brown, white bellied Tautilla. This started everyone off. Elvey Combs got a half-grown Salvadora mexicano and I got a Cnemidophorus, all under rocks at the side of the road. When it was so dark we began grabbing at Scorpions we decided to go on, night driving with the trucks 24 volt landing light. We got nothing, but stopped at a spot where a spring came down from a cliff and got a few Eleuthrodaclyhos. We went from here straight to the spot where we had