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some of the most outlying portions of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands. In this way we 
will be able to get a more definite distribution of our Coast flora. Persons requiring the list are ~ 
requested to make application to the Provincial Museum for the same. Additions and corrections 
to ‘The Flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands ” will be published from time to time 
in the Annual Reports of the Provincial Museum. 
LOAN COLLECTION OF LEPIDOPTERA. 
Mr. Frank Williamson in July, 1921, loaned to the Provincial Museum a wonderful collection 
of tropical Lepidoptera. These represented specimens from India, Australia, Ceylon, South 
America, Africa, Japan, Europe, and other countries. Mr. Williamson has been studying the 
Lepidoptera of the world for a number of years with regard to the similarity of species and 
geographic range, and this was the finest collection of butterflies and moths from different parts 
of the world that has ever been placed on exhibition in British Columbia. There were 196 
specimens all beautifully mounted in Riker mounts, and it filled two large cases on the second 
floor of the Museum. 4 
Although the Provincial Museum is a museum for the exhibition of the flora and fauna of 
British Columbia, when this collection was offered by Mr. Williamson as a loan, the Honourable 
Dr. J. D. MacLean, Provincial Secretary, readily granted permission to have the same put on 
exhibition. They were admired by thousands of visitors, numbers of them making a special visit 
to the Museum to see this wonderful display. Others came and made drawings and paintings 
for their own private collections. These specimens were returned to Mr. Williamson at the end 
of the calendar year. — - 
MAMMALS. 

Mr. BE. W. Nelson, Chief of the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D.C., asked that the study series of the chipmunks in the Provincial Museum be 
loaned to their Department, as Mr. A. H. Howell, a specialist, was working on this group. 
Seventy-eight skins from different districts on the Mainland of British Columbia were sent for 
study. The Department at Washington greatly appreciated the loan of these specimens, which 
proved of great ‘service to Mr. Howell in his study of this group. Upon returning the specimens 
he wrote his identification on the labels. 
The following is a list of the species and subspecies determined by Mr. Howell's examination 
of these skins. It is yery much in evidence that intergrading among the species and subspecies 
to a very pronounced extent is taking place throughout the geographic range, as the following 
classification according to the species in the Province will show :— 
Butamias townsendi Bachm. Type locality. mouth of Columbia River. Geographical 
distribution, Coast region of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, from mouth of Columbia 
River northward, east in northern Cascades to head of Lake Chelan. ; 
Butamias amenus felir Rhoads. Type locality, Mount Baker Range, Westminster District, 
British Columbia. Geographical distribution, Mount Baker Range, British Columbia; extent 
unknown. 
Butamias amenus luteiventris Allen. Type locality, Chief Mountain Lake, Montana. 
Geographical distribution, Rocky Mountains in Montana from Helena northward into British 
America. Specimens examined: Okanagan, B.C., 9; Shuswap, B.C., 2; Cranbrook, B.C., 2. 
Butamias amenus affinis Allen. Type locality, Ashcroft, British Columbia. Geographical 
distribution, Interior of British Columbia, east of the Cascade Mountains. Specimens examined: 
Okanagan, B.C., 18; Grande Prairie, B.C., 2; Similkameen, B.C., 9. 
Butamias amenus ludibundus. Specimens examined: Moose Lake, B.C., 4; Lillooet, B.C., 8. 
Butamias amanus afinis x luteiventris. Specimens examined: Okanagan, B.C., 3. 
Eutamias amenus luteiventris x affinis. Specimens examined: Okanagan, B.C., 6. 
Putamias amenus affinis x ludibundus. Specimens examined: Similkameen, B.C., 1. 
Putamias amenus ludibundus x affinis. Specimens examined: Lillooet, B.C., 1. 
Butamias minimus caniceps. Specimens examined: Atlin, B.C., 10. 
Five black skins from near the headwaters of the Stikine River, two of which have Leen 
provisionally identified by Dr, C. Hart-Merriam as melanistic examples of Hutamias borealis 
caniceps in 1909. The other three specimens were sent to the Museum in 1918 by Mr. H. W. Dodd, 
Government Agent at Telegraph Creek. These three chipmunks were taken by an Indian on 
Groundhog Mountain, who states that in this particular locality the chipmunks are all black and 

