. A year of Costa Rican natural history. Bonnefil Farmhouse at Palms, Jcrocomia viftifera, Surubres. To face p. JQ2. Surubrcs River below Fumarolc of Cerro Guachipelin. To face SURUBRES AND OROTINA 393 There were relatively few bromeliads on the trees hereand we found no dragonfly larvae in any of those we wereable to examine, although the adults of Mecistogaster ornatuswere seen in these woods. The yet unfolded leaves of thenumerous Heliconias formed cornucopias often filled withwater, and perhaps may take the place of the bromeliadsof the Atlantic slope as br
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. Bonnefil Farmhouse at Palms, Jcrocomia viftifera, Surubres. To face p. JQ2. Surubrcs River below Fumarolc of Cerro Guachipelin. To face SURUBRES AND OROTINA 393 There were relatively few bromeliads on the trees hereand we found no dragonfly larvae in any of those we wereable to examine, although the adults of Mecistogaster ornatuswere seen in these woods. The yet unfolded leaves of thenumerous Heliconias formed cornucopias often filled withwater, and perhaps may take the place of the bromeliadsof the Atlantic slope as breeding places for these forestdragonflies; with this in mind we frequently searched amongthese leaves for larvae. In pulling down one to examine itP. found that a bat was disturbed from somewhere and flewoff. Later another bat disappeared from the same vicinity,so suspecting that they had come from this leaf he pulledit over more cautiously and looking in saw a third still was a small bat, with the body about one and a halfinches long, exclusive of the tail. Its most striking featureswere the suckers on its limbs; e
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