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agreeably, and was much interested by Mr. Wolley Dod's fine collection of 

 local motbs and butterflies. But tbe weatber was unfavorable, and I caught 

 very few insects. I failed to get the local prize, Chionobas {(Eneis) Alberta, 

 which has, of late years, become very scarce. It formerly swarmed all 

 around Calgary. I took Ch. varuna, E. discoidalis, and a few other insects. 

 My next halt was at Banff, where I had a fine day and secured good speci- 

 mens of Brenthis Freija and B. frigga, besides one solitary Euchloe creusa 

 which I never met with anywhere else. I also got a last ragged straggler of 

 Thecla eryphon high up among the pines. 



June 4th found me at Victoria, where I remained for two days, and had 

 rather indifferent weather. I here took Papilio eurymedon, P. rutulus, and 

 Basilarchia Lorquinii, besides a few less remarkable butterflies. The woods 

 swarmed with Cyaniris pseudargiolus. I took a great number, but all much 

 rubbed. 



June 7th, I went to pay a visit at a ranch on the mainland two miles 

 north of the boundary line and about three miles from the sea. Here, again, 

 weather was indifferent, but I was lucky enough to take Parnassius clodius, 

 Papilio zolicaon (the only one I ever met with), and Phyciodes pratensis var 

 Orseis. 



Taking the C.P.R. eastwards from New Westminster, I went to Sica- 

 mous, and thence by rail and steamer down the hundred-mile-long Lake 

 Okanagan to Penticton, where I came into the "dry belt," and found glori- 

 ous weather. South of the Okanagan, Arrow and Kootenay Lakes, I spent 

 the remainder of June, and caught a great many butterflies; of which the 

 best is Erebia Yidleri— hitherto supposed to be peculiar to Mt. Cheam, on 

 the Eraser — appearing in August. I did not know what it was when I took 

 it in the valley of the Upper Keremeos, about twenty miles south-west of 

 Penticton and over one hundred miles south-east from Mt. Cheam, at an ele- 

 vation of 4,000 feet, in mid-June. 



Holland does not mention the species at all, and I did not appreciate my 

 good fortune and wait for the female to appear, as I expected to find it again 

 elsewhere. In the Upper Keremeos I also took Chrys, zeroe, Lyceena sagit- 

 tigera, and one ragged specimen of Thecla spinetorum, whilst higher up 

 Brenthis frigga and B. freija were abundant. Close to the boundary, south 

 of the mining town of Greenwood, Colias Alexandra v. Emilia was very 

 common, and the same grassy slopes produced numbers of the lovely L. Ac- 

 mon, L. heteronea and Melitsea chalcedon. On the mountain above Green- 

 wood I again took P. clodius — perhaps at its most eastern limit. Near Nel- 

 son I took V. California, Thecla ssepium, and other interesting butterflies. 

 From Nelson I went up Lake Kootenay to Kaslo, where I arrived June 30th, 

 and found good quarters in the excellent hotel of a very keen entomologist — 

 Mr. Cockle. I remained in this district for a week. Colias interior was 

 probably my best catch. I also got a great many Argynnis, all of three 

 species, Monticola, Atlantis, Eurynome and var. Clio, showing considerable 

 variation; 2 specimens of Lycaena anna, and one high mountain Lycsena, 

 which Mr. Cockle considered to be Podarce, but I fail to see any difference 

 between that specimen and the series which I took, later on, at Lake Louise, 

 and which Mr. Elwes pronounces to be Aquilo. 



Mr. Cockle has a good collection of local Lepidoptera, and sent home by 

 me some rare and interesting insects for the collection at the British Natural 

 History Museum. 



On July 11th, I went to Glacier, in the Selkirks, 4,000 feet above the 

 sea. The weather was tolerable, but there were very few butterflies about, a 

 few Brenthis epithore and Pamphila mandan — the American name for C. 

 Palapmon), being all that I saw in two days. 



