ctl ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 



left Fort Wrangel early one morning, and about half past four 

 next afternoon reached our destination about twenty-five miles 

 from Fort Wrangel which was to be my stopping place for two 

 days. Next morning I sent my men across the bay with instruc- 

 tions to ascend the snow-capped mountains opposite, in search 

 of the mountain goat, and to bring back any insects that they 

 might come across. Then, as it was raining and all vegetation 

 was soaked, I could do little but turn over a few logs along the 

 beach and search under seaweed for Staphylinidae. I was re- 

 warded by finding a Liparocephalus , but took little else, and filled 

 out the day by skinning birds shot on the way down. 



The night passed without interruption, except that caused by 

 the cries of a captive baby seal which we had placed in a pen 

 back of the camp cries of the most homesick intonation, calcu- 

 lated to melt the heart even of an entomologist without babies 

 of his own. Morning dawned clear at last and promised a good 

 day for collecting, so I lost no time in getting out and to work, 

 with better success in some directions than on the island. By 

 beating I took a few Syneta simplex, Corymbites caricinus, C. 

 tarsalis and Anaspis rufa. A number of Anthobiums were found 

 and one or two examples each of Leptalia macilenta and Pachyta 

 monticola, but this was about all of the beetles, the remainder of 

 the catch consisting of flies, moths and a few Hymenoptera. 

 Midges and mosquitoes were an almost intolerable nuisance, and 

 it was quite a relief to get back to the cabin, build a " smudge" 

 and look over the day's catch. In the evening my men came 

 back without the goat, though they had shot one away up towards 

 the summit of the mountain and found the difficulties in bringing 

 down the skin and necessary parts of the skeleton so great that 

 the attempt was abandoned. However, they brought down a 

 Donacia, which they had found in a snow-bank at a considerable 

 altitude, an Eros and a Rhyncholus, all of interest from the locality 

 in which they were taken. Both men were so weary that they 

 said they were too tired to pick up any of the " bugs" they came 

 across on the way down. Our return trip took us only a single 

 day, and next day I was on hand to resume my entomological 

 labors at Fort Wrangel. 



Leaving the Stikine River country for discussion in another 

 paper, but two points remain to be spoken of Hunter's Bay on 

 Prince of Wales Island (if we may rely on the information as to 



