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lower woods, Adimonia externa sometimes accompanying it. 

 A batch of Plagiodera oviformis was noted feeding on low herbs 

 on the bank of a small pond. 



Of weevils we saw very few. Rhynchites bicolot was present 

 on wild roses. The genus Trichalophus was represented by two 

 species, didymus (one specimen) and alternatus (more common). 

 These fine weevils are almost exclusively found under logs which 

 lie in patches of a small woody trailing plant, having small, 

 smooth, rather light green leaves. I do not recollect having 

 fotind any living specimen of these species in mountain regions 

 unassociated with this plant. They ranged from the valley 

 almost to the timber-line. 



Exploration of the higher elevations was greatly hindered 

 by the ruins. Nevertheless I made the ascent of Peak Eight 

 (in the Ten Mile Range) once, and attempted it again, but, 

 being caught in a heavy fog, had to give it up through fear 

 of losing the way. Just above timber-line Acmceops pratensis 

 was very abundant on flowers. Higher up, near the summit 

 of the mountain, probably between 13,000 and 14,000 feet, I 

 took Trechiis chalybens, Amara bruiuiipennis (which gives off a 

 vile odor when handled), a very few Bembidium grapii, one 

 Harmo7iia picta, one Podabnes lateralis, a few Aphodius vittatus 

 and an /Egialia, which seems to be a small form of laaistris. 

 A number of elytra of Carabus oregonensis were picked up, but 

 whether these remains indicate a natural habitation of the spe- 

 cies or were simply scraps left by birds I dare not say. The 

 peak is much more difficult of ascent than Moose Mountain 

 becau.se of the greater width of the fringing zone of flat- topped, 

 shrub-like evergreens that lie just above the timber-line proper. 

 It is not a pleasant task forcing one's way through such a 

 thicket when everything is dripping wet, and so far my ex- 

 plorations on mountain peaks had not been productive of any 

 goods results entomologically. 



We found Breckenridge the least productive of any locality 

 which we had visited on this trip, owing, no doubt, to the fact 

 that very little variety of landscape could be visited, and then, 

 too, the season was approaching the ' ' resting stage ' ' that 

 seems so noticeable every summer. The scenerj^, however, 



