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RD Sage 1965       [[page number encircled]]  24
Xylocopa sp
[[underline]] 5.5 km SE. Desamparados, 1260 m San Jose, Costa Rica [[/underline]] 
1 August 11:00 [[underline]] Schoenherria lateralis [[/underline]] nest discovered (Nest b) Poked in nest & bee responded. Buzzed in a high pitched tone that could be heard 10 ft away. Backed out to the entrance 3 times in response to probings. Wouldn't come out head first. Did the same behavior while I was tying a label on the branch 3 in. away - but not disturbing the whole. Abdomen was pumping in & out. 
- Check and take two apparently abandoned nests NE by 10 ft. from (Nest b). They are filled with debris.
12:00 (Nest 21) located in a dead log lying out in the field. The entrance to the nest was covered by spider web. Tested the burrow with a twig & got buzzing. When I sat down to write notes a black medium sized bee most surely one of the Schoenherria [[underline]] lateralis [[/underline]] After the first bee flew out I probed again & heard another bee.
31 July 14:45 In a field about 100 ft lower in altitude and 400 yds north of where we were working this AM. Found a nest (Nest #d22) in a spiny plant (SJ[[A?]]Bot 76). It looked to be a large bee. It was on the underside of a dead horizontal branch. [[strikethrough]] It was a [[/strikethrough]] There was a bee in it.