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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