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1879, f° r accommodations and pleasant intercourse. The evenings by 

 his fireside were, as in previous years, a memorable part of my trip. 

 The coldness of the nights makes a fire always necessary; there was a 

 heavy frost on one of the nights. The climate in midsummer com- 

 pares with that of the far north, and the insects also are very similar 



Fig. 95. — Collecting place at Tennessee Pass, Colorado. Cabin of L. E. Maupin. 



to those occurring at lower levels near the Arctic Circle. My visit 

 was at an earlier date in the summer than my former ones ; conse- 

 quently I was able to get some species not before collected here. 



While the total number of flies collected on my trip was not impres- 

 sive as such things go — about two thousand — the collection included 

 a larger number of interesting kinds than I have ever obtained before 

 in the United States in a single season. 



