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tion she was even on the lookout for it. Last year, how- 

 ever, she met with it some way to the north of Laggan. She 

 writes : ' ' The first place I took it was on a mountain at 

 the head of the North Fork of the Saskatchewan flying with 

 beanii ; it was common on all the high mountains north of that. 

 It is evidently a more northern species than beanii, and I 

 think harder to catch." I am indebted to her for a good series. 

 About other species she writes : "I got eleven astarte on the 

 spurs of Mount Athabasca, and northwards, very fresh, the 

 last week in July, and alberta fairly swarmed in many places. 

 .... I got twenty-five in one day on the slopes of Wilcox 

 Peak. . . . Wilcox Pass, or rather the valley just south of it, 

 is the headquarters of C. elis, which swarms there, with a few 

 christina in company. Elis is evidently a northern insect. 

 It is the commonest Colias on the Athabasca. One Pyrgus 

 centaureae on Brelahtan Pass in August is the only one I got." 

 Her record for alberta during 1907 is particularly interesting, 

 as during six years collecting at Laggan Mr. Bean only met 

 with it in the even-numbered years, and suggested that it was 

 biennial in appearance. It may be at Laggan yet, for all any- 

 one knows, as I have no odd-year records. By-the-way, I 

 found year-old wings of either this or astarte in a spider's lar- 

 der under a stone on Mount Stephen. Two very high moun- 

 taineers, though perhaps scarcely worth climbing after, are 

 Pamphila comma and Pieris occidentalism I have comma (form 

 manitoba ?} from 8500 feet, and occidentalis from the actual 

 summit, over 8600 feet of Mount Piran. I got wildly excited 

 on viewing four or five of the latter species in the distance 

 playing round a high ridge on Mount Field, and thought I had 

 come across a new species. 



ON page 84 of the February NEWS, Rlytroleptus floridanus is said to 

 have been recorded in the East only once before, from Massachusetts. 

 It might be of interest to some, to know that it has been taken abun- 

 dantly in this vicinity, for the last five years. It is found on oak leaves, 

 the last of May and the first of June. NORMAN S. EASTON, Fall River, 

 Mass. 



