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tie which easily will go into the case with the glass over it, and 

 proceed in the same way as when using the lard can, only one 

 must be careful to gauge the quantity of the solution to the 

 size of the glass, as the least quantity overflowing when the 

 cyanide is dropped in will ruin pins and specimens with which 

 it comes in contact. 



The beetle giving me about the only trouble is Trogodcrma 

 tarsale, which here seems to be two-brooded. The time that 

 I find most successful to exterminate their larvae is about the 

 first of May and the fifteenth of August. Perhaps a little 

 earlier for each brood would be as well, but in either case it 

 should be done before they change to adults. 



A Day's Experiences. 

 BY A. J. SNYDKR. 



We didn't think it rained in Colorado in July and August, 

 but the past summer seems to have been exceptional every- 

 where. Our experiences during eight weeks in camp and field 

 were such that we thought somewhat seriously of offering our 

 services to the State as rain-makers, for it rained wherever we 

 went. 



The history of what befel us July iSth, 1902, in Colorado is 

 also exceptional, but there were other days no less moist and 

 many ideal. 



It had rained the previous day, and cloudy weather had 

 spoiled parts of several days before. As we looked away 

 across the mountains it seemed to rain nowhere so frequently 

 as in the little gulch at the head of the valley where we had 

 camped, just at timber line. We therefore decided to make 

 one more heroic attempt to add to our collection of the species 

 which we found so abundant here and then move camp down 

 the valley. We were up early and had soon completed our 

 culinary duties, filled our pockets with the necessary boxes 

 and lunch and had started up the trail. What I have called a 

 gulch resembled a great basin with rugged peaks ascending on 

 three sides, some of them to a height of 12,000 feet or more. 

 These peaks all sloped back from the rim of the basin, and 



