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marglashani \v;is taken dvcr and aixiul (inc of tlicse patclirs. dashing' 

 around ratlin- wildly. 1 am not sure that they wn-e attrac-tod by the 

 flowers to any extent : ]MTha))s one of tln-m was its food plant, and I for- 

 get whether I took any exeept on the win^-. Xoetuids were plentiful also 

 in individuals— if ni>t siieeies — on the flowers, and one kind could be 

 swept oft" a dwarf Solidago, only a few inehes high. Yarrow or Milfoil 

 (Achillea) Lu])ins. and Fire-weed, rather dwarfed, all three ,L:r(Ju-ini!' 

 fairly high up. say about 6,500 feet. We did not find woj-tli while visiting 

 Angelica, and Heracleum flowers wei'e (piite attractive to all orders, but 

 did not , I thiidv. grow higher up than .l.oOO feet. 



In the rocliy ravines, and on the slo])es towards the summit, a silene 

 occurred; this is the moss-campion, with tin.v \)'u\k flowers on a greenish 

 cushion lying close to the ground. Lasiestras, Lasionyctas, and Orosagro- 

 tis incognita favored tiiis silene. sometimes half a dozen of them on one 

 plant, and it was on this that I took all my specimens of Autographa alta. 

 The beautiful "t'opjier." Heodes cupreus, could occasionally be swept ott' 

 the scattered plants of Arnica on the slopes, but they usually preferred 

 to sit down among tlie i-oeks in the ravines, like the Anarta and Syra- 

 pistis, though in 1921 I swept some of them (the latter) oft' a tiny white 

 flower, a few inches high, growing by one of the lakes at 7,500 feet. 



Around oni- camp in ];)21. es])eeiall,v at dusk, a number of things 

 were taken at the Asters, these included some Autographas, and Oncoc- 

 nemis hayesi, Paroa-nigra, and chandleri, also Euxoa brocha. Alpine 

 collecting for Coleoptera did not come up to expectations, but some good 

 species of Ceramby cidae, were taken on Mount McLean in ^'^'2^) ami 1921. 

 and on Moiuit Cheam in 1922, all picked, or swe])t oft' flowers, chiefly 

 umbelliferus plants. Two specimens of a small clear-wing moth were 

 taken oft' these in 1921. In the spring of 1905, I was fortunate in being 

 able to visit Southern California ; I was down there from the end of Janu- 

 ary into ]\Iay. At the beginning of February, Autographa californica 

 was out in large numbers, flying about some flowering shrubs during the 

 day in the gardens; tlie only other spgcies met with were brassicae, and 

 on Catalina Island, one biloba; other noctuids were very scarce, with the 

 exception of species of Melicleptria and allied genera. Some of these 

 were quite common, some of considerable beauty; the flowers oft' which 

 I swept them were mostly strangers to me. That exquisite "Blue,"" 

 Philotes sonorensis, was flying with the moths in March and April. The 

 very tiny "Blue," Brephidium exilis, appeared to hug the coast liiH>. 

 The Cacti flowers only seemed to attract small beetles. Species of Bren- 

 this, Euphydryas and Melitaea were fairly abundant, and at Santa Bar- 

 bara in Ma.\- Dione vanillae and Junonia coenia were not uncomnu)n; 

 both are handsome butterflies. Most of my collecting was done at La 

 Jolla, near San Diego ; all that country is ti-eeless, except for the fruit 

 orchards, and the catch made during my stay was hardly a rich one. ily 

 intention had been to deal with the results and possibilities of collecting 

 "At Light'" also, but the jiresent jtaper is alread.v uiululy long. 



