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up a large white sheet in what appeared to be a favorable local 

 ity and placed a good lantern and reflector behind it ; but this ap 

 paratus was so little of a success in attracting moths that we 

 abandoned it after a few trials. 



Besides the localities immediately around Kaslo, specimens ob 

 tained from several near-by places on or near Kootenay Lake 

 bear Kaslo labels. One of these we allude to in our notes as 

 " Lily pad Lake" and some of our captures have this additional 

 label. It is a small marshy pond, filled with water lillies and 

 other aquatic plants, about a mile and a half south of Kaslo on 

 the road leading to Mirror Lake. This was a favorite locality 

 for collecting mosquitoes and caddisflies, in their different stages, 

 and seemed to be the nearest place to Kaslo where dragonflies 

 bred in any numbers. The shores of the "lake" were covered 

 with a dense growth of trees and shrubs, and about the only way 

 to secure dragonflies was by walking out over the water on some 

 prostrate log and waiting for them to come within reach, taking 

 care to avoid losing one's balance when making a pass at them. 

 Mirror Lake, three miles south of Kaslo, is considerably larger 

 than Lilypad Lake and less overgrown with aquatic plants. It 

 is joined to Kootenay Lake by a covered ditch and is but a few 

 steps distant. In winter enough ice is harvested from it to sup 

 ply the country near by. This proved an excellent collecting 

 ground for dragonflies, mayflies and caddisflies, and on the moist 

 shores Saldid bugs were abundant. Many of the caddisflies were 

 discovered by jarring the branches of the trees near the lake, thus 

 putting them to flight and making their capture possible. Some 

 of the specimens bear Mirror Lake labels in addition to Kaslo 

 labels. Fletcher's Ranch, about five miles south of Kaslo and 

 at some elevation above the lake, was visited by Dr. Dyar, Mr. 

 Cockle and myself on June 1 1 . The place was reached by tak 

 ing a rowboat to a point some distance south of Mirror Lake, and 

 then following a road up the mountain for a short way. Here 

 a mountain meadow and pasture, covered in some places by a 

 few inches of water, made a good collecting ground for dragon- 

 flies and a variety of other insects. The mouth of Cooper Creek, 

 about three miles north of Kaslo on the opposite side of the lake, 

 was several times visited. Beating was good here, and on one 

 occasion, during June when the water in the creek was high, -I 

 collected a number of Carabid beetles, centipedes, spiders, etc., 

 in the drift brought down by the creek. Powder Creek, oppo 

 site and a little south of Kaslo on the east side of the lake, has, 

 near its mouth, a beautiful waterfall some forty feet in height. 

 The creek proved a good collecting ground for caddisflies and 

 stoneflies, and was the only locality near Kaslo where I found 

 ant-lions, several pits being discovered in the sand. 



