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The west side is precipitous. The season was exceptionally 

 late and astarte evidently not yet out. Neoarctia yarrowi has 

 more than once been taken on Piran, and today I found a half- 

 grown larva on a rock which was probably this species, and 

 several cast skins. The larva refused all food and died. Me- 

 litaea beanii and Anthocharis creusa were other catches, at and 

 just above timber. 



On July 7th I ascended Mount Stephen, Field, B. C., up to 

 7500 feet or a little higher. I took a freshly emerged yarrowi 

 9 sitting on a rock in blazing hot sunshine. It made no at- 

 tempt to escape, though its wings were dry. I caught CEneis 

 beanii $ and saw one or two more. A full-fed larva found 

 several hundred feet above timber produced Lycaena aquilo $ 

 on July sgth. On the 8th I went up Mount Field by way of 

 Burgess Pass. Here again I took Oeneis beanii and saw three or 

 four more. That was on a low spur overlooking the railway, 

 by no means the highest point. Also a full-fed larva which 

 started to spin within four hours and produced a yarrowi 

 on July 29th. He crippled very slightly in drying, not seem- 

 ing to understand climbing up sticks but wanting rocks. The 

 larva was at rest in the hot sun. Today I got a thirty -yard 

 view of a goat, which stood and stared at me but did not allow 

 himself to be caught. On the i3th I made the ascent of a 

 mountain, probably nameless, about six or eight miles south- 

 east of Windermere, B. C., by way of what is locally called 

 " Taggart's Pass." It is timbered practically to the summit, 

 and probably scarcely over 7000 feet. Result, inter alia, two 

 or three Oeneis beanii seen quite close but not captured. Pyrgiis 

 centaureae, one in fine condition, several hundred feet lower. 

 This, by-the-way, I have from L,ake Agnes, Laggan, much worn, 

 July 17, 1904. In Edward's Butterflies of North America, iii, 

 part xv, Mr. Bean writes : " In 1890 I took one pair of Arg. 

 alberta on a mountain near Hector, B. C., two miles west of 

 Alberta Province line. On that mountain lives Chionobas brucei, 

 never yet observed at Laggan, only nine miles distant." 



Mrs. Nicholl records both alberta and astarte from Lake 

 O'Hara, B. C., and the Yoho district. Nowhere there, how- 

 ever, did she meet with Oeneis brucei, though at my sugars- 



