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an Agrotid, but I could not place it. Dr. J. B. Smith pronounces 

 it Carneades dissona, of Moeschler, described from Labrador, 

 and apparently never before recognized in this part of the world. 

 It is a pretty moth with wings of an even, soft, purplish gray, 

 and distinct markings. There are touches of ochreous brown on 

 the primaries not mentioned in the description as given in Smith's 

 " Revision," and probably not evident in the Labrador insects, 

 as Dr. Smith writes me that mine is much the best-preserved 

 specimen he has ever seen. A day or two after this capture our 

 good friend, the sphagnostic, found a moth, probably the same 

 species, down near the alpine garden. But it is so worn and 

 faded as to be questionable. On one of these phenominally warm 

 evenings one of the employes of the hotel told us that there was 

 a "tree toad" peeping down below. We went out upon the 

 platform and soon heard plainly the familiar note of a Hyia. It 

 came from down the carriage road and was traced by one of our 

 party, who investigated the matter, to a little pool about a hun- 

 dred and twenty-five feet below the summit. The little ' ' peeper' ' 

 was not captured, but was probably H. pickeringii. It was the 

 first time any of us had ever heard this sound on the summit, but 

 I have since been told that there are Hylas in the Lake of the 

 Clouds. 



The warm, white, wooden walls of the Summit House were 

 again my best hunting-ground. At least once in two or three 

 hours I visited them and gathered in the spoils. Here I took, 

 as once before, an sEgeria, fresh and unworn. This time it was 

 the Albuna montana Hy. Edw. , a form I often capture in Fran- 

 conia; and here were found Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Dip- 

 tera in abundance. Ichneumon w-album, a gaily marked species 

 of black and yellow, was this year exceedingly numerous; I 

 could have taken hundreds of specimens on the sides of the house, 

 flying about the rocks, or along the carriage road. I took three 

 specimens of the odd, wasp-like longicorn beetle, Bellamira 

 scalaris, near the house, the first I had ever found on the moun- 

 tain. Simplocaria metallica was one of the most common beetles 

 under stones and sticks, or crawling on the ground; last season 

 I saw but one. Austin' s list speaks of it as " found in the greatest 

 abundance under stones near the six-mile mark." This list also 

 refers to Salpingiis virescens as "not rare on the summit," but 

 I have never seen it till this season, when I took one specimen 



