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six miles that evening to a friend's residence in the suburbs. 

 Three of the party that night slept in a bed for the last time in 

 seven weeks, while the other two made tent and rolled up in 

 blankets for the first night in camp. Oh, those Western mos- 

 quitos, and the first night out ! Whether they belonged to the 

 genus Anopheles or were the more common representatives of 

 the geus Cu/ex did not worry us, but their bites did, perhaps, 

 more so than at any other time during our journey. In the 

 higher altitudes they never bothered us long after dark as it 

 then became too cold. 



The next morning we rearranged our baggage, prepared to 

 leave all our friends behind and strike into the unknown. We 

 were in plain sight of the mountains and on leaving were 

 directed to pass to the right or left of certain peaks, to go to a 

 certain ranch and take the left hand road or go to the second 

 forks of the road, then turn to the left, etc. Our map of Colo- 

 rado was at a discount from that day on, for no one would 

 advise us to go according to its directions. We had thought 

 of visiting Estes Park, but after a consultation with people 

 who had been over the ground, decided that Routt County 

 was the only place in Colorado and joined the hegira in that 

 direction ; for Routt County is the great gra.ss region of Colo- 

 rado, and we concluded that game and butterflies should seek 

 similar localities, especiall}^ as one must cross the range to 

 Routt County, and the summit sugge.sted Chioyiobas. 



With light outfit and good teams, hunters drive into Routt 

 County in three days ; but our horses were not Arabs, our 

 outfit was not light and one horse proved a Turk. Ju.st before 

 starting we .spent a few minutes pursuing the butterflies which 

 were abundant in our friend's dooryard. Here were taken 

 Lycccnaaemon, Phyciodes ismcria, Colias eurytheme ^ Pyrgustessel- 

 lata and another species of Pyrgus, Pholisora catulhis, D. areh- 

 ippus, W aiitiopa, a few wary Odonata and a few hprnets. We 

 may as well remark here that, although we frequently had our 

 friends Tough and Prof. Needham in mind, we were unable to 

 capture a single dragonfly during the trip. To be sure, we saw 

 some, but they were wilder and harder to find than any other 

 game we sought except the sage hen. 



