228 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



L. arthcmis was extremely plentiful. It was a common 

 occurrence to take two or three at a time, and once I counted 

 sixteen in a space not larger than a man's hand. Besides 

 getting a good supply of these, I took P. oleracea and C. man- 

 dan, as well as duplicates of some of those netted the first day. 

 At dusk we reached City Camp, a collection of log houses used 

 by lumbermen in the winter time, having scored sixteen more 

 miles on our second day. After a hearty supper, which in- 

 cluded a fine mess of trout caught by our fishermen, we 

 ' ' turned in ' ' on the hard floor, rolled up in our blankets. 



By noon the next day we made ' ' McLeod ' Camp, having 

 placeed 5^ miles more to our credit. Now commenced the 

 hardest part of our journey. The buckboark could proceed 

 no further, so our food, blankets and such articles of clothing 

 as we considered indispensable were packed on one of the 

 horses. A hard climb of about two miles brought us to the 

 limit of travel for even a horse, with three more miles yet to 

 do before we should reach Camp Kennedy in the great South 

 Basin of Mt. Katahclin. These last miles were along a trail, 

 which we followed by the blaze-marks on the trees, over rocks 

 and stumps and moss-covered pit- falls which lined the way. 

 The heat was most oppressive, yet we had to stumble along as 

 best we could, carrying our goods ourselves, urged on by the 

 ever-increasing viciousness of the black-flies. We finally 

 staggered into camp about seven o'clock, nearly "done up." 

 And what a discouraging sight met our gaze ! The roof had 

 collapsed, and the rains and snows had played havoc with the 

 interior in fact it was so far destroyed that we could not use 

 it at all, but were obliged to build a " lean-to" in which to 

 sleep ; and when, after about two hours' w y ork, we lay down 

 on our aromatic beds of fresh fir boughs, we needed no lullaby 

 other than the murmur of a distant mountain torrent to induce 

 that refreshing slumber that comes after a hard day's tramp in 

 the woods. 



We were now in a great basin or amphitheatre, some two 

 miles long by one in width, at an elevation of about 3000 ft. 

 above the sea-level, heavily wooded and surrounded on all 

 sides but the east by the precipitious walls of Mt. Katahclin, 

 whose granite peaks towered over 2000 ft. above us. 



