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Syrphid flies was hovering, and a number of them were secured. 

 On the patches of still unmelted snow were a large number of 

 miscellaneous insects, most of them crawling actively about 

 though many others were dead or benumbed with cold. Among 

 these snow insects Coleoptera and parasitic Hymenoptera seemed 

 most abundant, although the orders Hemiptera, Orthoptera and 

 Diptera were also represented. In the afternoon we returned to 

 Bear Lake and took the train for Kaslo. 



On July 28, Mr. Caudell and I revisited London Hill Mine in 

 company with Dr. Dyar, this time climbing the mountain on 

 horseback so as to have more energy for collecting when we 

 reached the summit. Threatening showers made collecting 

 rather poor and few Lepidoptera were flying, though we secured 

 a Parnassius and a few moths. From the snow patches, which 

 had shrunken considerably since our former visit, we collected a 

 number of insects the majority of which, however, were evidently 

 the same species we secured there before. At the Silver Glance 

 Mine, a short distance below the summit, we spent the night and 

 experienced the customary hearty western hospitality. We tried 

 sugaring that evening, along the trail leading up from the camp, 

 but with no success whatever. The only creatures found at the 

 sugar were a crane fly, a slug and a mouse. Two moths, how 

 ever, flew to the lantern just as I was entering the cabin, a Geo- 

 metrid and a specimen of the common Noctuid Feltia Vancou 

 ver ensis Grote. 



In the morning we went again to the summit, but as the sky 

 was overcast butterfly collecting was poor, and about noon Dr. 

 Dyar went down to Bear Lake and returned to Kaslo. I spent 

 the forenoon in beating the firs and pines and took quite a 

 number of small Diptera and parasitic Hymenoptera, some small 

 stoneflies, a Coniopterygicl, two Scolytid beetles, a few longi- 

 corns, etc. We again examined the snow patches and found a 

 good variety of insects, among them a caddisfly and a small 

 Hemerobiid. Early in the afternoon the sun came out and we 

 were rewarded by securing a number of Lepidoptera and many 

 flies and bees from the flower-covered slopes. We walked down 

 to Bear Lake in the afternoon, sugared there in the evening and 

 returned to Kaslo next day. 



South Fork, August 9. About five miles from Kaslo, on the 

 Kaslo & Slocan Railway, at the point where the two branches 

 of Kaslo Creek come together, is a station known as South Fork. 

 The branch which has its source in Fish Lake and which is fol 

 lowed by the railroad is called Kaslo Creek, while the other, 

 coming from the south, is known as South Fork. On our way to 

 the Kitchener Glacier, August 9, we left the railroad at South 

 Fork station and took" saddle horses and pack outfit for the re- 



