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S.D. BUSACK
1982
-49-
25 MAY
yolbed follider; 1279, σᵢ, 9.6g, 73+152R;
"cont'd"
1280, φ, 8.2g, 70+168C; 1281, σᵢ, 4.6g, 57+
P. ALGIRUS
138C; 1282, σᵢ, 3.7g, 53+143C).
: CHECHAOUEN, just E. of city at river
with "tenaced falls".
Collected 5 recently transformed
Discocossus pictus and all were frozen
whole for tissues (=SDB 1284).
26 MAY
MOROCCO: CHECHAOUEN, MUNICIPAL Campground.
Today we drove along the road
to BAB TAZA (SE from CHECHAOUEN) and
collected along the way. From culvert
along the road we took 2 TARENTOLA
MAURITANICA (1285, σᵢ, 7.7g, 64+64C; 1286, σᵢ,
63+65C, 7.6g), 2 Psammodesmus ALGIRUS
(1287, φ, 3.2g, 52+124C, in tall grass; 1288,
φ, 14g, 81+173C, 4 shelled eggs [11x6, 11x7, 12x6,
12x6] on right, 4 shelled eggs [5? x 12x6, 11x7]
left), and one MAUREMYs LEPROSA (1289,
from river almost due S. of chechouin).
Back at the campground, we collected
2 more PODARCIS HISPANICA (1291, σᵢ, 2.8g,
50+59R; 1292, 2.2g, 49+59R, φ, 1 yolbed follide
right 2 yolbed on left).
The 2ND P. algirus was found
~1 Meter up in an oak tree along
the roadside! They are semi-arboreal!