Mustranai, Meika A. 1993 journal 52 Fazenda Sta. Carlota - SP season from june to september. Annual precipitation amount to 1400mm. We arrived at the park on Wednesday. the 27 of October. Maia Rita de Cassia Amâncio, one of the 2 managers of the park, set us up at the researchers' house. We set up 120 traps in the 140ha forest. After 3 nights of trapping we caught only Philander and Akodon. The weather was hot and sunny during the day. The nights were misty or clear. the temperature cooling down significantly.* Fazenda Santa Carlota - SP Fazenda Santa Carlota, in the Município de Cajuru, approximately 50km east of the city of Ribeirão Preto, serves as field station for researchers/students at Univ. of São Paulo campus of Ribeirão Preto. Since 1983 some professors at the dep. of Zoology and the owners of the farm have had an agreement that protects the remaining native vegetation (40% of the total of 2600 alqueires‡, divided in many small plots), and allows for research at the farm- The farm nowadays is dedicated for sugar- plant culture (we could observe many fully