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The Coleopterous fauna shows now more of an inhind 

 character, reminding me closely of the Cceur d' Alene district 

 of Idaho, not so much on the account of the identity of the 

 species as the general facies. Along the bank of the river, a 

 few species of Ncbria occur in more or less abundance be- 

 neath debris, in company with Patrobiis aterrinms Dej., and 

 Platyniis ^iceolus Lee. A few Benibidia may be found near 

 the water, and refuse matter on the sandy beach furnished a 

 number of Aleocharce and Homalotce. From under the bark 

 of a stranded log I took a number of Dryocoetes affaber Mann., 

 Polygrafhits rnfij^ennis Kirby, and Omaliimi ■ptLsilhun Grav. 

 The hill fauna was entirely different, the proportion of Cara- 

 bidee being much smaller; here were found Cytilus trivittatus 

 Melsh., under burnt logs in company with Bembidium morulum 

 Lee, and an occasional Cryftohy-pmis noctuj-nus Esch. In 

 fungi a number of things were taken, Ahochara inoerens Er., 

 Oxyfoda sp., Gyrophcena bihamata Thoms., Tetratoma cofico- 

 lor luQc.^ 3.nd ffallomenus ^uncttdattt-s Lee. I was much sur- 

 prised to find a specimen of Platycerus dc-prcsstis Lee, in this 

 high latitude (about 57° 5^' north) and so far inland as to be 

 comparatively little subject to the modifying influence of the 

 warm current which bathes the coast of Southern Alaska. 

 The altitude of Glenora must be near five hundred feet above 

 the sea level, and in the far North a slight difference in eleva- 

 tion has its effect on the temperature. 



Unfortunately the bad food on which I had been living for 

 several da3'^s (all my provisions having been submerged in the 

 sinking of the steamer and thus rendered hardly fit for use) 

 had the effect of weakening me so much that I thought it 

 best, after two or three day's work here, to accept the offer of 

 some prospectors, who were returning to the coast after a trip 

 in the Cassiar District, to descend the river with them. With 

 favoring wind and current we made the run to the mouth of 

 the river without further difficulty than a broadside collision 

 with a tree that had been washed across a channel usually 

 open. 



