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cold wind, and ten miles beyond them at Cape Ray lighthouse much milder 

 conditions were found, with tiger beetles, Orthoptera and forests of spruce and. 

 birch on the mountainside. 



At the second station. Bay St. George, very comfortable quarters were 

 found in Martin's Log Cabin Hotel, at Stephenville Crossing, with a greater 

 variety of environment and better collecting than at any other place visited on 

 the west coast. The bay is surrounded by extensive sandy areas, in which 

 three species of tiger beetles were found. The limestone Table Mountain is 

 accessible with Cychrus nitidicollis living on its sides and Trechus and Bembi- 

 dium in the leafy mold accumulated in the cold pits of its gypsum cliffs. A 

 little northward on the railroad rich forests and sphagnum bogs are encoun- 

 tered. The nights were too cool for good results at sugar and light, although 

 beetles were attracted by bottles with sugar mixture, including the rare Misco- 

 dera arctica. The diurnal I.epidoptera, however, included many northern forms 

 of interest, like Papilio turnus in its northern form, Papilio asterias variety 

 brevicauda, Lyccena pseudargiolus, northern form, Lyccsna scudderi, Chionobas, 

 etc., attracted with hosts of Diptera and Hymenoptera to the numerous wild 

 flowers. 



At the third station, Bay of Islands, comfortable quarters were found at 

 Fisher's Hotel, Humbermouth, and the same northern species were found, but 

 on account of the absence of sand, perhaps, no tiger beetles. Night work was 

 tried again here, but it was too cold and rainy for good results. The methods 

 most productive were turning stones, logs, etc., and sifting. One field was 

 found not closely cropped by sheep, and there the sweeping was excellent. 



The fourth station was not visited until the return from Labrador, when 

 a week in the middle of August was spent at the Log Cabin Hotel at Spruce 

 Brook on George's Pond. It was too late for diurnals, which in fact were 

 often found faded and torn while at Stephenville, between July 10 and 15, but 

 the night collecting at sugar and light seemed excellent, and 75 to 100 speci- 

 mens were caught nightly. This locality was more inland, about fifty miles , 

 from the coast and protected by ranges about 1,500 feet in height. Along the 

 railroad track for miles, wild flowers were plentiful and yielded many insects ; 

 thickets of alder, forests of spruce and birch, a sphagnum bog at the end of 

 the pond and the shores of the pond itself all afforded good and varied col- 

 lecting, while a path cut through the woods made an ideal spot for sugaring. 



In addition to these four stations, at each of which several days were 

 spent, short stops were made, as the Labrador steamer made calls at Port 

 Saunders and at Port aux Choix, near the northern end of Newfoundland, and 

 by sweeping the flowers of the cow parsnip and examining the contents of the 

 net later, considerable numbers of Diptera were obtained. 



Continuing, Mr. Engelhardt described the trip from Newfoundland to Lab- 

 rador and the eight days spent in the latter country, housed with Mr. John 

 Croucher, at Battle Harbor. Temperature ranged between 40 and 50 degrees. 

 One afternoon was fairly clear, but it was foggy or rainy all the rest of the time. 

 During the one clear afternoon, the little blue butterfly was fairly common, 

 and a Chionobas and some Geometers were taken. Otherwise collecting was 



