364 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, 



valley is literally filled with snow, and during the early part 

 of July some of the lakes above Brighton's, as the onl}^ hotel 

 is called, have ice upon their surfaces. All through the Sum- 

 mer, snow may be seen upon the high mountains surrounding 

 Silver Lake, and up to the middle of July the snow banks 

 cling to the margin of Twin Lakes and Mary's Lake, while the 

 ice water from the surrounding snow constantly cools the waters 

 of several lakes which are well stocked with speckled beauties. 

 These are large enough to allure even the most ardent chaser of 

 butterflies and cause him to drop a fly or worm into the clear 

 depths, where the artful dodgers are plainly visible, and where 

 they are likely to remain, spurning, at that season of the year, 

 the most tempting bait. 



Eight or more miles from the city the stage road enters the 

 foot-hills, and the rest of the journey to Silver Lake is up hill. 

 Most of the distance the road is close beside the foaming cur- 

 rent known as the Big Cottonwood. About half way up a 

 pause is made for lunch and to change horses at the Half Way 

 House. The driver turns into a small yard and stops before a 

 house. We alight and find that we are in a small glen enclosed 

 on all sides by rocks which rise almost perpendicularly hun- 

 dreds of feet. On the right still rushes our mountain stream 

 and ahead there seems no opening wide enough for a wagon 

 road, but it is there, and winds upward, now on this side, then 

 on that, of the stream, but ever onward, with ever-changing 

 and constantly more beautiful scenery. 



Parnassius clodius flits through the glen while we rest and 

 lights upon a dwarf flower ; Pieris pallida hovers about the 

 small irrigation ditch ; PamphUa comma lights upon a leaf in 

 the sunshine ; Thccla californica is found in its usual resting 

 place, upon the leaves of the choke cherry, and on the same 

 plant are foutid the larva* and eggs of Papilio rutiilns ; Papilio 

 daunus sails haughtily by and Pyrameis carye haunts the bunch 

 of nettles by the water. MeliUca acastus flits about the door 

 yard and the onniipresent \ 'antssa antiopa darts at the intruder 

 from his resting place on a convenient tree. A fresh Ar^rynuis 

 leto hesitates l)eside a thi.stle blo.ssoni, but seems to realize that 

 a bounty is placed upon its scalp (the Doctor is constantly re- 



