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shaly slope, suitable for running hundred-yard races, I saw 

 a few more and caught a fresh though slightly crippled $ 

 (Eneis beanii. Then in went the sun for the day, and the day 

 following brought snow. That was on August 8th. I re- 

 ferred to the locality in Can. Ent., xxxiii, p. 161, as Slate 

 Mountain (I wrote southeast by mistake), as it and its neigh- 

 bor to the west were marked on the map as "Slate Range," 

 but I have failed to discover whether it has received a definite 

 name even yet. Four days later I took another in even worse 

 condition, on the top ridge of Sulphur Mountain just on the 

 timber line, at about 7200 feet. Mr. Sanson's capture on June 

 27, 1900, I think the earliest yet recorded, and that near the 

 Devil's Lake, Banff, was recorded by me in the pages referred to. 



On July 18, 1904, after having waited round Lake Louise, 

 Laggan, in company with Mrs. Nicholl for two days, wait- 

 ing for a gleam of sunshine and breath of warm air, and 

 sitting on snow-drifts to try and keep warm, I started alone on 

 another visit to the "Slate Mountain" in most unpromising 

 weather. It did no better than it promised either, and the 

 most interesting thing I found was a pair of ptarmigan with 

 a young brood which, by-the-way, are less afraid of a man 

 than the average barn-door fowls. If anyone contemplates 

 making a trip to that mountain for butterflies and back in a 

 day, my advice is don't ! It is nearly three miles from Lake 

 Louise to the station, and three more through burnt and fallen 

 timber to the foot of the mountain. There are others far easier 

 of access and probably equally prolific or more so. 



On the day following the sky had almost completely cleared, 

 and I piloted Mrs. Nicholl up the trail to Saddle Back, about 

 two miles from Lake Louise chalet. It was there on a grassy 

 and heathery slope that I had taken what I never believe is 

 C alias strcckeri and which I recorded as nastes, and C. pelidne 

 var. skinner i, and a worn specimen of Chrysophanus snoui. 

 But that had been nearly three weeks later, and now the pre- 

 vious winter's snow had evidently not been long off the ground, 

 and there was nothing to be seen. As I had brought Mrs. 

 Nicholl up that height rather against her inclinations, I felt 

 somewhat disgusted. We sat down on a fallen log (we were 



