. A year of Costa Rican natural history. of metallic green, rose, and purple colors {Euch-roma goliath). We photographed it two days later, thecreature proving very sluggish. This species is found fromMexico to Colombia. On April 28 numerous beetles, partic-ularly longicorns and passalids, were flying about althoughwe saw no very large species. One day in July a large reddish spider suddenly ran acrossthe road, followed at a distance of six inches by a black waspwith a yellow spot on its head. The spider doubled andtwisted, and hid behind stones; the wasp followed everymove, rising on her wing
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. of metallic green, rose, and purple colors {Euch-roma goliath). We photographed it two days later, thecreature proving very sluggish. This species is found fromMexico to Colombia. On April 28 numerous beetles, partic-ularly longicorns and passalids, were flying about althoughwe saw no very large species. One day in July a large reddish spider suddenly ran acrossthe road, followed at a distance of six inches by a black waspwith a yellow spot on its head. The spider doubled andtwisted, and hid behind stones; the wasp followed everymove, rising on her wings when the spider length she touched the spider with her antennae, whenthe and struck at the wasp with her frontlegs, then hurried off in the interval of the wasps chase lasted several minutes, then the spider got undera stone and the wasp, at fault, hovered over the place withquivering antennae, frequently alighting to search the groundbut unsuccessfully. Here we interfered by lifting the stone. Euchroma goliath (From life). To face p. 224
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