94 THE LEPI'DOPTERIST 



Washington and down through Tuckerman's Ravine. 

 We went along the carriage road noting the condi- 

 tions, especially as we made the sharp turn just be- 

 yond the Half Way House. It is here in August one 

 usually sees for the first time Brenthos montinus Scud- 

 der about the dwarf goldenrod along the roadside. 

 The Labrador Tea was just budding but only a few 

 leaves of the goldenrod were visible. Except for a 

 few very hairy black spiders and ground beetles, which 

 we disturbed from under stones, there was no other 

 insect life. We passed the fourth mile post just around 

 the curve and made for a small clump of stunted pines 

 on the right side of the road, hoping to find some 

 insects in this sheltered spot. We only found two 

 wild currant bushes in flower, about which were a few 

 Syrphidse. Pushing on towards the fifth mile post it 

 became colder as there were many snowbanks around, 

 and just as we made the turn we noted a few small 

 white flowers growing from moss-like clumps, and a 

 dwarf willow about six inches high which had started 

 to form white catkins. The country was now spread 

 out beneath us as we had left the tree line at practically 

 the Half Way House, and the mountain resembled a 

 giant pile of broken rocks. 



Later in the season at about the fifth mile post we 

 are accustomed to look for Eurymus interior Scudder 

 (so called) and Autographa u. aureum Gn. (Vaccinii 

 Hy Edw.) on the flowers of the sand wort. We saw 

 nothing and kept on towards the summit. It was cold 

 and bleak nov/, but as we approached what is known as 

 "the six husbands' trail" before the sixth mile post we 

 saw clutsers of a small purple flower on a low bush. 

 They were quite fragrant and we noted a number of 

 large yellow bees with jet black markings hovering 

 about them. It seemed strange to see flowers at this 

 high altitude when below all was bleak and bare, but 

 this evidently was early spring at the top. We left the 

 carriage road here, following the trail which was 

 simply small piles of stone or a white arrow here and 

 there, over the ridge towards Tuckerman's Ravine, 

 arriving at the top of this ridge after a half-hour's 



