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the opinion that these were identical. I found I had two 

 species from the Eastern U. S. to which I applied these names, 

 and accordingly wrote to him about the matter. He replied 

 that he also had arrived at the conclusion that there were two 

 species concerned, and shortly afterwards he published the dis- 

 tinctive characters in Can. Ent., May, 1896. His two species 

 are the same as mine, but what he calls affinis I had called 

 modcsta, and vice versa." After referring to the poorness of 

 the descriptions and the difficulty of identifiying the species, 

 he adds : " Mr. Robertson, feeling this, goes so far as to pro- 

 pose the alternative name zizia for the proposed affinis, and 

 until we can have a better description of the latter, from Smith's 

 type, it will be preferable, I think, to call the insect zizia- 

 Rob. ' ' The name ' ' Prosopis zizifs Rob. ' ' occurs several times 

 in Prof. Cockerell's papers, and the author of the list of the 

 Hymenoptera of New Jersey under Prosopis also writes, " Pro- 

 sopis zizicc Robt. ' ' 



I do not think much importance is to be attached to attempts 

 to identify the supposed males of affinis and modesta in Smith's 

 and Say's descriptions. 



Over the Range in a Wagon. 



By PROF, and MRS. A. J. SNYDER. 



(Continued from page 147, Vol. XII.) 



On Monday we passed over the Gores range after a hard 

 struggle and after we had exhausted our persuasive powers 

 upon old Bay and Gray a number of times. The upper por- 

 tion of this range is covered with heavy pine timber, and no 

 doubt there is an abundance of game back from the road. Two 

 young men who followed us and camped one night here had a 

 shot at an elk, but the only game we saw was now 7 and then a 

 saucy pine squirrel. On the summit we found a perfect flower 

 garden and butterflies abundant especially Argynnis. We hoped 

 to find equally good collection on beyond, so foolishly only 

 stopped here a short time, during which sixty-nine butterflies 

 were taken. As we descended the range we entered a beauti- 

 ful small park and early went into camp beside a spring of 



