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very good, particularly for Lepidoptera, which were attracted 

 b}' the flowers of the alfalfa, a plant which here in the West 

 takes the place of our red-clover in the East. Up the Red 

 Butte Canon we also found very good collecting, not only for 

 Lepidoptera but also in some of the other orders of insects. 



Tuesday, July 4th, found us in the City Creek Canon, and 

 although we started to collect from the very mouth of the . 

 canon, yet it was not until we had traveled up the canon for a 

 distance of about three miles that we found good collecting ; 

 in fact, it seemed as though insect life increased as we got 

 farther and farther up the canon. It was here in City Creek 

 Canon that we found Papilio daiinus, P. riituhis, and P. eury- 

 mcdon so very common, that at last we paid no attention to 

 them, unless it was to "scoop" in a Papilio daurucs that 

 happened to come our way. 



Wednesday, July 5th, again found us up City Creek Canon, 

 as we could not resist the temptation to paj' another visit to 

 this interesting collecting ground. This might be called "Rat- 

 tle-snake Day" as the Professor and the Doctor captured the 

 only rattler that I saw during the entire trip, though the Pro- 

 fessor saw two large ones in the same place shortly after I left 

 Utah. 



Thursday morning, July 6th, found all three of us a little 

 foot-sore, so we concluded to hire a team to take us up the 

 canon to a point about seven miles above the entrance, known 

 as the " Forks," and then work our way down. We secured 

 a team, but not such a one as you would expect the President 

 of the United States to take when going to a reception. The 

 seats consisted of boards with the splintery side up, and we had 

 traveled but a few miles before we were made painfully aware 

 of the fact. To sum it up in a few words, our rig resem- 

 bled a cross between a buck-board and a lumber- wagon. 

 However, we at last reached our destination, and as it was our 

 last day to collect in this vicinity, and wishing to make the 

 best of it, we at once started in, working our way down the 

 canon, collecting as we slowly went along. 



Friday, July 7th, we were up at the break of day, as we had 

 made arrangements with a party the night before to convey us 



