. A year of Costa Rican natural history. Entire Tree and curled Pods of Guanacaste—Enterolobium cyclocarpum. To /lite p. ^6q TURRUCARES AND RIO GRANDE DE TARCOLES 369 The banks of this stream were muddy, and in the openpasture the muddy spots attracted great swarms of butter-flies which clustered closely at certain places. These butter-flies were almost exclusively white or yellow Plerinae butthere was one almost white Papilio with long tails. In factnot only this day and here, but also at other days and placesaround Turrucares we saw many such swarms over muddyplaces and on dung. The potrero
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. Entire Tree and curled Pods of Guanacaste—Enterolobium cyclocarpum. To /lite p. ^6q TURRUCARES AND RIO GRANDE DE TARCOLES 369 The banks of this stream were muddy, and in the openpasture the muddy spots attracted great swarms of butter-flies which clustered closely at certain places. These butter-flies were almost exclusively white or yellow Plerinae butthere was one almost white Papilio with long tails. In factnot only this day and here, but also at other days and placesaround Turrucares we saw many such swarms over muddyplaces and on dung. The potrero through which we passed had in it a numberof fine cedro {Cedrela) and guanacaste trees. The cedro hasnothing whatever in common with our cedar; it belongs tothe family Meliaceae. The guanacastes, unlike those at ElBrazil, Alajuela, had not dropped their leaves. Looking directly south from the front of the Custodioshouse, the horizon was formed by a ridge of mountainssometimes called the Cerro de Puriscal, for to the south ofthe ridge
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