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Paidus died without eggs ; and we were never again able to take a 

 female of this fine species. The butterflies are not uncommon, but live 

 among bushes and scrub, where it was not possible to use the net. Dr. 

 Skinner has somewhere set down Paulus as synonymous with Stheneie, 

 which is very wide of the mark indeed. 



July 2nd, a friend who was staying at the Hotel sent us with his 

 buckboard and driver up the next mountain trail south and back of the 

 Springs. We turned up a ravine through which ran a swift brook, and, 

 sometimes walking, sometimes riding, reached a height of about 2,500 

 feet above Grand River, going in all perhaps five miles. From the start 

 we saw butterflies ; below and along the brook, Satyrus Ariane, Charon, 

 and in the bushes, Paulus ; for several hundred feet rise, either in the 

 road or on the dry and naked slopes of the hill, Dionysius; and wherever 

 there were scrub oaks, Thecla Chrysa/us, var. cithna, H. Edwards. 

 Scores of these last could have been taken as they rested on the oak leaves. 

 This, according to Mr. Bruce, is the only form of the species taken at 

 Glenwood, but to the east, near Denver, it is not found at all, while 

 typical Chrysalus abounds. At about 1,500 feet there was a wide curve 

 in the road, and just there was a spring from which a little water trickled 

 down the track for half-a-dozen rods. Where the road bent, a footpath 

 came in from above. Here, about the wet road, and on the path, we had 

 a good breathing spell, and took many butterflies : P. occidentalism P. 

 Becker ii ; Co\'\2,^ Alexandra ; Argynnis Nevadensis, A. Behrensii (here- 

 tofore reported only from Mendocino County, California, and exceedingly 

 rare in collections); Melitaea Palla, M. Augusta (another rare Californian 

 species); Phyciodes Carlota and Camillus ) Pyr. Cardui ; Grapta 

 Satyrus ; Satyrus Ariane, Charon, Paulus ; Chionobas Chryxus (very 

 large specimens and very yellow). This last species flew leisurely along, 

 alighting on the wet ground, and if disturbed did not fly wildly ; in fact, 

 behaved much like Satyrus Nephele. Took or saw half-a-dozen C. 

 Ochracea, most of which came flying down the path spoken of. Nothing 

 can be prettier than this insect on the wing, as it flutters along, flying 

 low, and it appears a great deal brighter yellow than is shown in dead 

 specimens. We also took Limenitis Weidemeyerii ; Chrysophani 

 Virginiensis, Behrii and Zeroe. This last is a very pretty species ; the 

 yellow of the under surface much brighter than in dead examples. We 

 took about a score of them, all males. Zeroe flies even in British 

 Columbia, east cf the Cascade Mountains. Of Lycsena, we took P'ulla, 



