18 entomological news. [January, 



Great Melaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 16, 1897. "In 

 snow, altitude 1300 feet." Respectfully dedicated to its dis- 

 coverer, Mr. H. G. Bryant, of Philadelphia. 

 Platychirus peltatus Meigen. 



Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 22 ; Sitka (Loevv). 

 A widely distributed species, Northern Europe, White Moun- 

 tains, N. H., New York, Pennsylvania, Colorada. 



Melanostoma glacialis n. sp. cT- 



Length 6 mm. Face greenish, shining, uniformly and densely covered 

 (except the tubercle) with a grayish pollen. Tubercle prominent, black, 

 shining, frontal and vertical triangle, black, with long blackish pile; 

 occiput with grayish pile, antennae entirely black, mouth parts brown. 

 Thorax dull black, with large black pile somewhat brownish on the 

 anterior portion ; scutellum an obscure yellow, stained with brown, which 

 becomes black at the lateral angles, pile long, black. Abdomen narrowly 

 ovate, black ; opaque, with prominent grayish pile, longest on the sides, 

 hind border of the fourth and the fifth segment shining, near the middle 

 of the second segment on each side is a small round yellow spot, third 

 and fourth segments with a large ovate, yellow marking at the anterior 

 angles, reaching the lateral margins, those on the fourth somewhat 

 smaller than those on the third, posterior margin of the fourth narrowly 

 margined with yellow. Legs black, apical portion of the femora and the 

 base of the tibiae of the anterior and middle legs yellowish. Wings hya- 

 line, with a slightly grayish tinge, stigma an obsolete yellow. 



Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 22. Resembling 

 M. ccerulescens Will, in abdominal markings but readily separated 

 by the opaque black ground color. 



UTAH REVISITED; WYOMING AND MONTANA.— Part II. 



By Prof. A. J. Snyder. 



From Ogden, Utah, northward, no stops were made until we 

 reached Beaver Canon, Idaho, or, as the place is now known, 

 "Beaver." From this place some tourists travel northeast by 

 wagon to Yellowstone Park. 



The country in the near vicinity reminded me of the rolling 

 land of South Dakota, but the hills are larger and one need not 

 travel far to find the country mountainous. 



The Wood Bro's sheep ranch has a station some six miles out, 

 to which one of their men invited us. 



I have seen few places more productive of butterfly life. It 

 was almost impossible to advance for there were hundreds ol 



