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Vol. L. LONDON, JANUARY. 1918 No. 1 



POPULAR AND PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY. 

 A Week's Collecting on Coliseum Mountain, Nordegg, Alta. 



BY F. C. WHITEHOUSE, RED DEER, ALTA. 



A number of years ago Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod gave his experi- 

 ence of a day's collecting On a mountain top near Laggan (Ent. 

 News, March, 1908)^ In the hope that it may prove of passing 

 interest to collectors, I tell a somewhat similar story. 



On the 16th July last year Mr. K*. Bowman, of Edmonton, 

 made a trip to the top of the Coliseum Mountain, Nordegg. He 

 took a pair of Brenthis astarte; one or two Papilio zolicaon and 

 P. nitra; took a Neoarctia yarrowi, and otherwise satisfied himself 

 that it was a "happy hunting ground." On the 10th August, 

 1916, I made the same trip. The day was sunny but bitterly 

 cold ; however, I took a fine pair of Neoarctia heani and several 

 other good things, and I was equally pleased with the promise of 

 the Mount. Since then Mr. Bowman and myself have discussed 

 a camping-collecting trip on Coliseum Mountain every time we 

 met, and in the end we went. 



We left Red Deer, 9th July, Alberta Central, 1.30 p.m. for 

 Rocky Mountain House, arrived 7 p.m., spent the night at the 

 Mountain View Hotel, and resumed our journey, C.N.R., 7 o'clock 

 a.m., arriving at Nordegg shortly after noon. Mr. Stuart Kidd 

 of the Bighorn Trading Co. had everything ready for an early 

 start next morning, viz., two pack ponies and a packman, tent, 

 sleeping-roll, blankets, a grub-stake, cook pots and an axe. 



Mr. W. Stevenson, of Nordegg, a new recruit to the entomo- 

 logical fraternity, promised to join our party for two or three 

 days; and the plan for the morrow was as follows: We to leave 

 at 7 a.m. hot-foot for the mountain top to scout for water, and 

 particularly a spring that I had found in August the previous year. 

 It was estimated that we could perform our mission and be back 

 at the clifif face in time to meet the packman and his ponies after 



