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shaw in White Mountains. I added, this summer, to my list of 

 Mt. Washington Diptera between seventy and eighty species. 

 Of these, at least five or six are entirely new to science, and some 

 ten or twelve have never before been recognized in N. America. 

 While out in the sunshine the " black fly" {Simuliwni) was very 

 troublesome, flying about one's head and biting as in the lower 

 country. The species is .5*. piscicidhim. 



In Arachnidae I found some interesting things. The large red 

 mite discovered by me last year and described by Mr. Banks as 

 Oligolophus viontaruis, was abundant, crawling everywhere over 

 the rocks and ground, or on leaves of plants. I took nineteen 

 species of spiders, only two of which were included in last list. 

 Of these one is a new species and has been given, by Mr. Banks, 

 the manuscript name of Dismodicus alpinus; another, a Dendry- 

 phantes is probably new. 



The tame chipmunk which for two summers has come famil- 

 iarly about the house for food and petting was there again, and 

 with him, this season, running about fearlessly among the rocks 

 below the platform and feeding on the fragments of luncheons 

 thrown there by tourists or swept out by bell boys, was a mole. 



One day we saw two large eagles soaring overhead. Lowland 

 insects which must have come from far below are found on the 

 summit from time to time, and we wonder at the long upward 

 flights those gauzy, frail wings can accomplish. A few days 

 before I went up the mountain Miss Clark, of the Summit House, 

 to whom I owe many of my rarest specimens, found in the hotel 

 a luna moth. It was a well-preserved, almost fresh specimen, 

 the first I have ever seen at such an elevation. We took but one 

 Argynnis montinus, evidently a freshly emerged one. It was 

 too early for that mid-summer visitant; but Chionobas semidea 

 was there in plenty; and of Plusia vaccinii and the two Atiartas, 

 schoe7iherri znA melanopa, we could have taken hundreds about 

 golden rod, the white cinque-foil and arenaria. 



And so with alpine birds, blossoms, bugs and beasts, the week 

 flew swiftly by, and we were very sorry, as we always are, to 

 come down to the lower world again. 



Grandma — "I see that the locusts with a 'W on their wings are out 

 again. It means ' War' whenever they appear." Miss Laura — " Not this 

 time, grandma. It means ' Woman.' This is the era of her emancipa- 

 tion." — Indianapolis Journal. 



