Mexico [Oaxaca] circa 1866-1880
Felix L. Oswald, Summerland Sketches, or Rambles in the Backwoods of Mexico and Central America, J.B. Lippincott & Co., Pennsylvania, 1880, p. 236.
An agent of a London or Hamburg curiosity-dealer might make his living here with a common butterfly-net. On any sunny forenoon an active boy could gather a stock of Lepidoptera that would create a bonanza sensation among the collectors of a North European capital. The rhododendron thickets of the upper Rio Verde are frequented by gigantic varieties of nymphalis, vanessa, and parnassius, which would retail in Brussels at from two to ten dollars apiece.
