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Sullivan
1949
Carmes skittonianus
-1-
Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif.
1 small one collected from under a stone
in the middle of a barren, stone strewn
serpentine slope - sun was really boiling
down on this side. On a Cincense Cedar
Doug. fir forest without ground cover.
-Another larger one was seen but not collected-
in the wire grass (sp?) opening on the edge of the Tan Oak forest on the slope S
of camp. It was among the sticks and
fallen leaves of a nearby Madrone - also
some wire-grass scattered thru and a
sparse number of Broken Fern. The
small one was [illegible] discovered when a
stone was picked up, it flashed out and
under 2 or 3 other stones before being
cought at about 1 p.m. The second one-
larger one - was out, perhaps foraging,
and ran for shelter when I approached -
at about 3 p.m. - and was in an area
fully exposed to the hot afternoon sun.
Aug 27 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 2400 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif.
1 fairly large individual seen running for-
sheleter while I was walking along the
Cedar
Meebo Creek Trail up Wetman Ridge - on top of
the ridge in fact. It had been in Tan oak
leaf litter and escaped into a cover of Evergreen
Huckleberry. Time 12:35 p.m., and where the