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until time for onces at the hotel. We went back to the plaza to collect aphids and coccinellids that we had seen earlier. Took tewo species of Coccinellids which were feeding on the aphids which were attacking the leaves of linden. Raul went across the street to a bookstore and returned with a copy of Kim (in Spanish) to read after going to bed. Castro is a small town built almost entirely on high ground overlooking the water.
[[image - black and white photograph of waterfront showing stilted piers and buildings, buildings terraced up the hill, road in the foreground, and rolling hills in the distance beyond the water]]

[[caption]] Waterfront of Castro [[/caption]]

The waterfront is lined with warehouses and is where the railroad which connects Castro with Ancud starts. Dinner at the hotel was fair and we went to bed shortly afterward.
Feb. 22. Woke up to find it raining quite hard, my first bad day since leaving Washington. However, it let up just as we were ready to go to the station to take the auotcarril for Ancud. We were late and had to take the second car which was really fortunate. The first car goes through to Ancud without stops and had we gone in it there would have been no chance to collect anywhere along the line.
The second car carries the payroll for the maintenance of way men of the railroad. We left Castro nearly on time and by 9.15 there was blue sky in the south. We stopped where-ever there were men to be paid, sometimes at a station and sometimes between stations. Collecting would have been better if it had not rained earlier. At Mocopulli I found some carabid and a small colony of termites in a bit of wood lying beside the track. Snyder later identified the species as Porotermes quadricollis (Ramb.). About noon we stopped at Puntra long enough for lunch. There were two restaurants, perhaps we got the poorer of the two. In all,