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at Victoria. To that current the whole coast from Yakatat Bay- 

 to the Columbia River owes a liberal allowance of fog and misty 

 rain, more at the North and less at the South, but otherwise the 

 thousand miles of northing from Puget Sound gives no notable 

 climatic difference. Therefore, it is easy to see that, with the 

 same geological formation, the same flora, and the same climate, 

 the same fauna must prevail; and so I have found it. So far as 

 my insect captures are determined I did not get a specimen in 

 Alaska but what is found about Puget Sound in greater abun- 

 dance than in Alaska. One Pieris, from Sitka, bears another 

 name from those of Puget Sound, but I .regard it as the same 

 species; I will "lump" that much. The country inland is well- 

 nigh impenetrable, being, as I have said, mostly up edgewise, 

 and sometimes almost to the perpendicular, and densely wooded; 

 and underneath, a network of fallen trees thickly covered with 

 sphagnum or moss, which apparently never gets dried out, be- 

 cause of the rain and the dense shade. Five miles a day is good 

 traveling through these thickets. There are no clearings or 

 ranches, or farms; no room for a butterfly to stretch its wings. 

 In Coleoptera it is as bad. I got one Cychrus marginatus at 

 Metlakahtla, and one at Loring, and a pair of C. angusticollis at 

 Junean, but nothing of interest anywhere. 



Wrangel is a green spot in my memory, because there I got 

 my first Alaskan butterflies. To be sure they were only a com- 

 mon Pieris, but it is noteworthy to get any butterflies in such a 

 rainy country. These poor Pierids were nearly starved by the 

 long season of rain, and were crawling about upon an umbel of 

 datiais trying to feed; they could not fly, because of the rain, so 

 I picked them off the flowers with my fingers, and took them in 

 out of the wet. Numbers of little geometrid moths were flying 

 aboHt, but I had no net out in the rain, so I did not get them. 

 I met here, by chance the usual way, an eastern naturalist who 

 was skinning birds. He told me that he had seen in the vicinity 

 one specimen hi Limenitis Lorquini. From that item we may 

 set down Fort Wrangel as the northern limit of that species. 



About the town of Junean I caught a lot of Pierids, of the 

 same old species, but no other butterfly was seen. Then I fol- 

 lowed a mining road out into the country as far as time would 

 permit, but found nothing else. By the roadside lay some pine 

 blocks left by the axe-men. Under one of these I found the fine 



