THE OREGON NATURALIST. 
their home in the Moluccas, while the rest of 
this beautiful family Pep:/ionidae have a very 
wide distribution, being found in all parts of 
the world. While the beautiful genus //e/- 
tconius are exclusively inhabitants of tropical 
America the West We have 
noticed the wide distribution of certain species 
of the genus (+) of Pzerdzdae, such as Pieris 
vapae, whose original home is Europe, but 
and Indies. 
has found its way to the American continent; 
also different 
whose 
caused much discussion of late, and whose his— 
species of Col/tdae argynnts 
resemblance with one another has 
tory has hardly as yet been solved. Again we 
find the beautifuland elegant genus Morphenae 
found within tropical America and parts of the 
West Indies, while in the large genus /unonia 
found to inhabit the Northern parts of Australia, 
Celebes, China, Japan, North India and parts 
of Africa, Again we find the interesting genus 
Catagramma to inhabit parts of tropical 
America, while the elegant dfaturas have 
representatives in almost every part of the 
world; again the beautiful genus Zeovza are, 
as far as known, to be found at the upper 
Amazon in Brazil, while the Zycaenzaae are 
widely spread over a good portion of the earth’s 
surface. 
Thus it will be seen, from a study of butter- 
flies, that some of the most beautiful problems 
of dispersion of species can be more easily solv- 
ed, than of any other tribe of the Animal 
Kingdom; and as the laws of nature must be 
the same for all beings, that butterflies, being 
so susceptible of being wafted hundreds of 
miles by the preveiling winds, are undoubtedly 
the most important factors connected in this 
line of investigation; that the contrast between 
different faunal regions is so marked by forms 
subject to its own climate. 
ine the fauna peculiar to Japan, which is a 
mixture of European Indian and North Ameri- 
can forms, we have before us a field which has 
Again if we exam. 
always claimed the special attention of students 
interested in the distribution of species. 
(to be cuncluded.) 
() Parnassius whose home is found in the Alps of Europe 
the Himalaya mountains of Asia and the Ro-ky mount- 
ains of North America: such as Parnassius Harducka 
and P. Himalayana of India; P. Appo'lo and P. Delius of 
Europe; and Parnasstus smintheus and P. Clodiuscf N. A. 
‘Mr. Linn Winans from The Dalles, 
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AN HISTORICAL 
RELIC 
The copy of the stencil which is reproduced 
here, was sent to the Oregon Naturalist by 
Oregon. 
Mr Winans writes ‘*The large blank space is 
The lid or 
The sten- 
cil is made of light boiler iron and weighs three 
one and one half inches deep. 
cover tothe box cannot be. found. 
This stencil was found near the old 
Indian village of ‘Wish-ram’.” 
A. brief 
be found in Washington Irving’s Astoria. 
pounds. 
description of Wish-ram can be 
This is supposed to be the stencil used by 
Cay tain Meriweather Lewis, and carried by 
him on h.s famous campaign of discovery. The 
space containing the letters U. S. measures 
Zin. X I 341n.; space inclosing name, Zin. x 
44 1n.; blank space below name 2 Yin. x 4 Yin. 
A tomahawk, said to be the one used to 
kill Dr. Whitman, will be on exhibit at the 
Yakima (Wash.) fair, to be heldin October. 
Professor J. J. Rippetoe of University Park, 
party 
month’s travel in Southern and Eastern Oregon, 
Oregon, and have returned from a 
and brought home a number of valuable 
specimens for the museum, 
Pecten hastatus, Sby. is occasionally seen 
on salein the fish markets of Tacoma Wash. 
