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a small Jassid. And there are always a great many flies, princi- 

 pally Muscidae and Tachinidae. I have never seen a day so cold 

 or stormy that there were not some of these bluebottles buzzing 

 about the rocks or bumping against the house or barns. Mr. C. 

 H. T. Townsend, to whom I sent some of these, pronounces 

 them "of great interest." 



The red-legged grasshopper is plentiful, and I saw one of the 

 red-winged (//! tuberculatus) also C. viridifasciata, and two or 

 three species of Teitix and Tettigidea. I took only two dragon- 

 flies this time, both belonging to the Agrionina. These were 

 flying in Alpine Garden. Others were seen, but not captured, 

 around Lake of the Clouds. A Chrysops2.-i\A two or three Phry- 

 ganidae were also found. 



The stones themselves are resting places for flies and other in- 

 sects, while several species of spiders crawl over them by hun- 

 dreds. It is out of place in an entomological journal, I suppose, 

 to say much of other forms of animal life, but I may just hint at 

 such. 



There are chipmunks here; one of them became very tame 

 last Summer, and came daily to be fed, taking nuts or grain from 

 those he knew or trusted. After his^ long Winter's sleep in that 

 frozen clime he might well have been excused for forgetting his 

 old acquaintances, but he remembered. And all this Summer 

 he came again every day, accepting favors as gracefully as ever 

 from his Summit benefactors. While I was there in July a wood- 

 chuck was shot by one of our party, on the side of the cone, 

 quite near the hotel, and mice, shrews and moles are not uncom- 

 mon, as daily visits to the wire traps, with which the mountain 

 bristled during our stay proved. Snowbirds ( Junco) fly about 

 and dart in and out among the rocks just around the base. I 

 made a great mistake I suppose in not examining the trapped 

 and shot animals for parasites. I heard, but all too late, that 

 mysterious little creatures were seen running from the bodies of 

 these victims soon after their decease. These may have proved 

 rare alpine forms of Pulex, Pediculus, Melophagus or Sarcoptes; 

 perhaps even a new Platypsillal 



One must not be too fastidious in the choice of hunting grounds 

 on the summit. One of our favorite insect mines there was the 

 soft-soap barrel near the kitchen door. This sapanaceous bait 

 proved very taking, and we captured there some of our rarest 



