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Jalisco
'46
Lipilo fusca
45.
Sierra de Tajalpa, 1-1/2 mi. W of Sayula, 7450 ft., Jalisco,
Met. to Guadalajara, 5200 ft., Jalisco, Met.
Aug. 6, 1946
fuscae were noted.
fast the crest of the ridge a juvenal P. fusca was collected in a cornfield about 1/4 mile
from the limits of C. Guzman. The country all
the way is a north-south agricultural val-
ley, with Ciudad Guzman lying at the south end
of the valley. The surrounding hills are low,
and mostly scrub-covered, with a few pines
along the crests. C. Guzman is at an elevation of
5100 ft. We returned to the same cornfield from
which we had collected the juvenal P. fusca
and took 1 Melozoa piopieri and 3 adult
Brownlowbees. Lowbees are quite common here,
but fly into the cornfields when disturbed, and
are impossible to find. They seem to inhabit
brush-filled barrancas between fields, and are
also found on small knolls near the fields.
These two knolls are covered with xerophytic
shrubs, and with small candelabra cactus.
Lowbees were noted commonly all the way
back to Camino Nacional No. 4, through
San Andres Xitlean, Sayula, Atoyac R.R. Station,
and Zacualco. They were noted on the crest of
the ridge just south of C.N. No. 4. The valley
running through Zacualco to Sayula connects
with C.N. No. 4 farther west, and a playa