220 THK CANAI>IAN KNT«>Mi>I.O<ilHT. 



Collecting at IVinceton being so good, I was tempted to tramp down 

 the Siniilkameen to the Okanagan, but was already so far from home that 

 that idea was given up, to be realized later, I hojje. After buying a new 

 supply of rice, bacon, hardtack and coffee, I took the back trail, Princeton 

 to Hope, going slowly and collecting by the wayside. The Lycwnidaj 

 were plentiful everywhere, and Ertbia Vid/et i was rather common for 

 about ten miles east of the Princeton Summit. 



At the Summit two or three days were spc-iii, and as I had no tent I 

 slept in the shack, which had been built by a couple of trapj)ers. It was 

 a sma.l log atTair, with a sod roof, and a door Urge enough to crawl 

 through ; in one corner was a suspicious-looking bed, on which 1 slept 

 not ; in the opposite corner was a rough fireplace. Ii was better than no 

 shelter at all, however, for at such high points the nights are very cold, 

 and even then in July one's dishcloth would be found frozen stiff" in the 

 morning. 



A day or so was spent at the sandy flit below the summit, as also at 

 Cayuse Flat, in the bottom of the Skaget Valley, in which latter spot many 

 Geometrida* were taken. 



My grub was almost gone then, so I made a day's journey to llope. 

 Fiom there I came down the south bank of the Fraser to Mt. Cheam, which 

 it was my intention to climb, but on account of wet weather I kept on to 

 (Ihilliwack, from which place the steamer was taken to Westminster. 



The following is a list of species taken during the trip, and if exception 

 may be made to any of the kinds named (especially among the Lycxnidte), 

 my only excuse is that 1 was unable to send thein to Victoria or Ottawa to 

 be identified, and so had to do it myself, using Holland's Book for that 

 purpose : 



Parnassius clodius Manairies. — Quite common in the Fraser Valley. 



I'apilio zolicaon Boisd. — Cayuse Flat, on the Princeton trail. 



Synchloe sara Boisd. — Princeton trail, on a tlat about 3S miles from 

 Hope, July 17. 



S. Realsirtii Fdw. — At the same spot as Synchloe sara, July iS. 



Eurymus interior Scud. — Princeton trail, July 14. 



Argynnis aphrodite Fabr. — \{ aphrodite is found in the far west, this 

 must have been it, as it seemed identical with the eastern specie^, 

 July II. 



Brenthis epithore Boisd. — This butteifly is very common on the 

 coast, and even on the higher summits was abundant. 



