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I should not omit to refer to eoUeetinii' at ".Sallows."" I do not 

 remember doing any "sallowing"' worth mentioning- in Ontario. Quebec, 

 or on the Prairies, nor during my stay in Victoria, chiefly for lack of 

 any convenient localities, easy of access, but since I came to Duncan, this 

 mode of collecting has been almost a yearly event. Accompanied often 

 liy my friend and next door neighbour on Quamichan Lake, Mr. G. 0. 

 Day, I have enjoyed many profitable evenings, and without going any 

 distance away from home. Sheets spread under the trees — some of them 

 quite large and tall — some vigorous shaking, lamps, cyanide bottles, or 

 pill boxes, and then often a rich and varied harvest. The noetuids usu- 

 ally sit dormant on the slieets long enough to allow one to jiick and 

 choose. The Geometers, which coiuc in surprising numbers, have to be 

 collected off the Howers, or flushed before it is too dark to see, and then 

 taken in the net. All the native species of Stretchia, Xylomyges, Peri- 

 grapha, Orthosia, Graptolitha, Xylena, and other early flying species, 

 may be taken in one good season. The season varies a good deal, accord- 

 ing as it may be an early or late one. mild or chilly. This year (1924) 

 some of the sallow noetuids appeared before the last days of February. 



In British Columbia I mi.ss the collecting off "Milk weed;" in Onta- 

 rio, Quebec, and to a lesser degree on the Prairies, the flowers proved 

 highly attractive to butterflies, .especially perhaps the larger Argynnids. 

 I regret that I never tried the "Milk weed" of an evening. I wondei- if 

 any Lcpidopterists present have ever taken that beautiful noctuid, Rho- 

 dophora florida, at the flowers of the wild evening primrose (Oenothera 

 biennis). Perhaps the moth does not occur anywhere in B. C, but I 

 noticed the plant in flower, and fairly abundant around Agas.siz in 

 August, 1922. I have taken the moth back East, and on the Prairies, and 

 found it at rest in the daytime, partly in the closed flowers ; with its 

 pinkish jn-imaries. it was a feast to the eyes. 



In 1919 and 1921, with Mr. Day, and in 1920, with Mr. Glendenning, 

 Mount McLean, in the Lillooet District, was visited. In the two last 

 years we camped at 5,000 feet, and a number of trips were made to the 

 higher elevations, and to the summit nearly 8,000 feet. I think most of 

 our best collecting was done off flowei'S above the tree level, at about 

 7,500 feet. There are meadows of fairly level ground, quite extensive, 

 and, on the whole, well carpeted with flowers. Some kinds were over 

 when we were up in August, the Anemone occidentalis were all seeding ; 

 the}- were abtindant from 5,500 feet up, and the heather was mostly past 

 also. Where the flower patches were thickest, Diurnals, especially the 

 "Blues," simply swarmed in 1920 (Auuust 22nd and 23rd). It was here 

 that I took two species of Syngrapha; in 1921 none were seen, I think 

 because we were a couple of weeks ahead of the 1920 dates. The patches 

 of flowers consisted chiefly of a large flowered Aster (apricus), yello>v 

 or orange daisies (Arnica), and another tall yellow flower (Aplopappus). 

 One day in 1920 at 2 o'clock, and the second as late as 4 o'clock, Hepialus 



