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one species of Humble-bee was seen in ^ome numbers around 

 a little patch of white clover. Diptera were numerous in 

 individuals but apparently not in species, the Orthoptera 

 were not represented at all. A fine Dragon-fly was not par- 

 ticularly rare but I got no specimens of it. 



On the 27th of June I left with two men and a canoe for 

 the mainland, intending to run into a bay about twenty-five 

 miles distant, send the men up the mountain after goats w^hile 

 I collected insects. Two days' hard and steady work brought 

 us to our destination where we camped in an old deserted 

 cabin, glad enough of any shelter after forty-eight hours spent 

 almost entirely in the rain. Not feehng equal to the work of 

 ascending the mountains next morning, as I was stiff and sore 

 from the previous exposure, I sent the men across the bay 

 after the goat while I made preparations to collect where I 

 was. Rain soon stopped me though, with little to show^ but 

 a Li^arocc^halus brevipennis Makl., a nice Staphylinid found 

 under seaweed. The morrow was clear and some very inter- 

 esting additions were made — Syneta siniplex Lee, Le^talia 

 macilcnta Mann., Pachyta inouticola Rand., Corymhites carici- 

 nits Germ., C. iarsalis ?*Ielsh., and Anas^is rufa Sa}'., on flow- 

 ers. A number of flies and bees, with a fev.^ Lepidoptera, 

 completed the day's catch and in the evening my men came 

 back without the goat. They had shot one high up on the 

 mountain but as the pelage was in poor condition and the labor 

 of bringing down the specimen so great, they abandoned it. 

 One of them brought m.e a specimen of Donacia fcinoralis 

 Kirb}'', taken from a snow bank at a high altitude, and one 

 each of Eros shn-plici^cs Mann., and Rhyncholus hrimneus 

 Mann. We started back early next da}-, and with a favorable 

 wind for part of the distance reached Fort Wrangel about 

 midnight. 



Sunday morning, the 12th of July, I took passage on the 

 steamboat "Alaskan" for Telegraph Creek, the head of navi- 

 gation on the Stikine River. This boat was a small vessel of 

 about seventy tons burden and of very light draught, w^ell 



