TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 233 
With this short preface and with your kind indulgence, I will 
begin: ‘ 
The different points of interest between here and Winnipeg have 
been so thoroughly discussed by tourists of late years that it is need- 
less for me to refer to my trip until a start is made from Winnipeg 
on June Jth, 1883. 
The main object of this journey, was to make a collection of 
insects and especially of Rhopaloceres or the day butterflies, the first 
of the two great divisions into which the Lepidoptera have been 
divided. The different species of this division all fly by day: they 
have the antenne terminated by a knob or club and comprise the 
Paypilionide, Pieridae, Lyccenide, Erycinide, Litytheade, Satyride, 
Hesperidz, and so on. 
The Heteroeres, the greater portion of which fly by night, embrace 
the Sphingidz, Bombycide, Noctue, Geometride, &c., &. In this 
division the most noticeable feature of distinction is the antenne, 
which are of a feather-like appearance and taper to a point at the ends 
instead of the knob or club that the majority of the diurnals have. 
I do not intend to enter into detail with regard to the species which 
I captured en route, but more to give a brief sketch of the trip and 
the beauty of the country through which I passed, as well as the 
barren parts. 
After leaving Brandon on the 11th June, the next point of interest 
was Moosomin where we lay over a day, to visit Fort Ellis and 
Binscarth. The former is an old fort under the charge of Mr. W. J. 
MeLean, a faithful otficer of the H. B.C. The party with whom I 
was travelling were going on to Binscarth, the “stock farm,” and 
property of the Scottish Ontario Co. 
As Mr. Mclean offered me the hospitality of the Fort, I decided 
to remain over and make such additions to my collections, as were to 
be taken in the neighbourhood of Fort Ellis. 
I was well rewarded for my pains, as I succeeded in making some 
rare captures. Fort Ellis is situated 30 miles from the C. P. R. 
track and about 20 miles from Binscarth. 
Here the Blackfeet and the Sioux Indians, (principally the former) 
were congregated in large numbers around the Fort. Their “tepees” 
or lodges were thick in every direction, and I had the opportunity of 
seeing how the Government agents distributed the pork, flour and 
blankets to those Indians who deserve them. 
