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years. There is another butterfly which seems to have disappeared, aud that is the 

 liine white (Neophasia menapia). I made a special trip after it at Coldstream the 

 lirst weelv in September, but did not see a single specimen. I captured three in 

 September, 1911, but have not seen one since. Eiigonia californica (the California 

 tortoiseshell) was scarce, and I did not see a red admiral {Vanessa atalanta) duriug 

 the whole season, although I kept a shai-p look-out for it, as I have only taken two 

 specimens during the last three years. Vanessa cardui (the painted-lady) and 

 V. carym I have not seen at all during the same length of time, although cardui is 

 supijosed to be fairly common. 



There is still another butterfly which I have been trying hard to get, and that 

 is aSncis nevadcnsis, Feld (better known as gigas, Butler). It generally appears 

 about June 10th, but owing to the wet weather which occurred at that time, I did 

 not see a single specimen. 



Coming to the family of the L.vcienidjB (the hairstreaks, blues, and coppers), I 

 found Uranotes molinus (the common hairstreak) and Thecla californica much 

 scarcer than usual, the first brood of the first named being exceedingly so. On April 

 ISth I took eight Incisalia mossi, six males and two females. The next three days 

 it rained, and I went again on the fourth day, but did not see any flying about. As 

 I wanted to get a few more, I made a careful search of the bracken over which 

 they play, and found one male, but after that date I did not see it again. 



Behr's eyed blue and Ci/aniris ladon var. nigrescciiH were the first blues out, 

 appearing towards the end of April, and they were fairly plentiful, but Evcres 

 (iiiiiiiit)ila (the Western tailed blue), which came out two weeks later, was very 

 uiuch scarcer, and Cupido swpiolns, which did not put in an appearance until June 

 2nd, this year was scarcer still. The weather, which was very wet about this time, 

 seemed to kill them ofl: in a few days. The skippers apparently were made of sterner 

 stuff, and they seemed to stand the vicissitudes of the weather better, as Thanaos 

 propertius was very common in the sijring and Thorijbes pylades (the Northern 

 dusky-wing) was more plentiful than it usually is, but unfortunately after the first 

 few days they were entirely unfit for the cabinet. I am glad to be able to record 

 the capture of one each of Thecla hlenina (Hewitson's hairstreak) and Eri/niiis 

 camma rar. nerada, which two species are rather rare in this district, especially the 

 first named. 



Turning to the Nocturnals, I found SmerintliKS optliahnicus fairly plentiful from 

 !May 13th to 20tli, hanging to the cables between the arc lights and the electric-light 

 poles. On the first morning that I went around, in company with the lamp-trimmer, 

 I obtained nine specimens of j8'. opthalmi<;us on one cable; on another I found five, 

 four males and one female, evidently a case of double attraction, that of light aud 

 that of sex. In the same way I captured Hphinx rancouverensis, Deilephila gallii. 

 Hamia colvmhia, and several other good things, only in much smaller numbers. 

 Diacrisia i-irgiiiica (the Virginian tiger-moth) was extremely abundant from the end 

 of April until the end of June, and I took one in perfectly fresh condition as late 

 as August 8th. ] j; 



As I was unable to do any sugaring, I do not know what results were obtained 

 along that line of attraction, but " sallowing " was very late this season. Owing to 

 the cold wet spring the sallows were very late in blooming, and when they did 

 bloom the weather continued so bad that a start could not be made until the bloom 

 was nearly over. At the kind invitation of an entomological friend, I went to 

 Qnamichan Lake in April for a couple of nights " sallowing." During the afternoon 

 it had I'ained very heavily and the evening was a little chilly, so that our expecta- 

 tions were not very great. However, the " catch " turned out much better than was 

 expected, and from six trees visited that night we gathered eighty-six specimens, 

 rejiresentiug twenty different species, amongst which were Graphiphora ferrigera, 

 Xijlina fcrrealis, X. torrida, X. holocinerea; Calocampa nitpera, and Enharveiia 

 (■(irhoriaria rar. dircs. 



