Field notes, v585
Page 187
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Dec. 19, 1941. Route Cristo mine, too; left's moraga, El Salvador. 100 Ctenodolurus seen on this hike, only one adult was seen. Cut south into Divisadero and climbed a steep hill just SE of the town. A native told me that he had seen squirrels on this hill, but I saw neither squirrels or sign. The most noticeable thing on this trip was the hordes of grasshoppers along the trails. In the afternoon drove to Barrios mine with Seitz. Went into the banana grove wherein Stinton had collected the Enderma Dec 17. There were none there, but I shot a new species of Aulicis, distinguished from the common species here by a plain pale orange throat fan without blue spot, a series of transverse black bars across the back shaped [illegible], and black and white vermiculation on the head. I collected it from a fallen banana plant (943). Also collected a brown skink (944). I heard it as it rustled through the dead banana leaves on the ground. At my approach it ran up a banana plant and tried to escape behind one of the broad, dead leaf stalks on the bole of the tree, where I caught it. Then stripped the stalks from several other plants hoping to uncover lizards, but without success. A short time afterwards, I shot a Crophius lineator (945)