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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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252 THE AM ERICA X MUSEUM JOURNAL formino- crevices in all directions, some of them more than three feet deep and so broad that I could thrust my arm into them. Much of the life of the surface evidently had been destroyed by the water. I found many hundreds of trap-door spiders' nests but all were deserted and ruined. The most striking and distinctive character of the fauna at San Geronimo seems to be brilliancy of coloring-. Thus the black spider, Lafrodcctus- 'mactafis, common all over tropical countries, has here l)road coral-red stripes which give it an appearance more red than black. The
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K. (). Hovey, Photo., 1906. ON THE JALTEPEC RIVER, ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC. black scorpion is replaced by a yellow one, the black and brown tarantula by a species with pink cephalothorax and red-striped abdomen. Speci- mens of arachnida were abundant, but the number of species was few, so that three days proved time enough to get a representative collection. My next stop was made at Tonala, Chiapas. This town is in the rainy belt which begins a few miles to the southeast of San Cieronimo and extends along the Pacific coast into (luatemala. In the lowland, it was hard to collect, owing to the great amount of water over the ground from the swollen brooks. One trip only was made through the little

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