El Salvador field notes, v4500
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entrance tunnel we encountered some Glossopha and there were many in the first ore cavity or vein, When we looked about more carefully we discovered some Adiberts in a little dark pocket, for in the first stoke or ore cavity there were many exterior openings above thus letting in much light. By fixing our attention to our Butterfly net we were able to nally all that were clinging to the little rocky pocket. Nos. 12179 to 12182 inclusive were added to our collection. They were males. We passed through another short tunnel and to reach the second stoke. Clinging to the walls high above and to poles, that braced between the overhanging wall and the foot wall, were hundreds of Chilonysteris rubiginosa. It was impossible to drive them down to the little tunnel where we had made a trap out of our mosquito net. I looked across a stoke that led down to unknown depths and saw what I thought to be