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part of the walk we started to climb down and across. Along 

 the rocks we found the curious mountain blue-berry bushes. 

 They are scarcely taller than lichens, and the fruit is most tempt- 

 ingly exposed, being exclusively on the top of the plants. We 

 plucked a handful, but they were not as sweet as those in the 

 valley. Suddenly another montinus flitted by, and my first cap- 

 ture was made. Presently we dropped into the carriage road 

 again, about two hundred yards above the half-way house. Be- 

 tween this point and about a similar distance beyond the house, 

 by walking along the road itself, Mr. Perkins and I captured 

 fifteen specimens in the course of half an hour. By this time it 

 was ten o'clock and we started to return, having a long, hard 

 four -mile walk ahead of us. One does not»realize, till he tries it, 

 how easy it is to get "out of breath" chasing an insect in this 

 rarified air. But the pursuit of such a rarity as -montinus makes 

 one forgetful. We had gone about half a mile, in the next half 

 hour, and taken five more specimens, when we were overtaken 

 by a man driving a buck-board, and quickly engaged passage 

 with him to the summit. The trip up was thus made very enjoy- 

 able as whenever we saw anything on wings it was easy to get 

 out and go after it. Thus we took five more of montinus in the 

 next fifteen minutes, after which we saw no more. I may pause 

 for a few comments. Observe that we took twenty-five of mon- 

 tinus before eleven o'clock, an hour after which v/e usually make 

 our best captures in the valley. I am confident that if we could 

 have remained on the spot for the rest of the day we could have 

 taken a hundred specimens, as we were fortunate to find them 

 plentiful. This makes it worth while for any one designing to go 

 there to note the date, which was August 6th. They feed on any 

 of the mountain flowers, but nearly all of ours were taken on a 

 variety of Golden-rod, 



I made two other notable captures during the ascent. One a 

 fairly large gray geometer, which I have not identified as yet, and 

 the other a Plusia. This is either octoscripta, or something un- 

 known to me. It is a brilliant black with gray markings, and a 

 handsome specimen. 



Reaching the summit we had dinner, and then went for some 

 more of semidea. Hunting in the same place above described I 

 soon found how to capture Anarta Schoe7iherri. I will endeavor 

 to direct the reader. Whilst it is true that the rocks look all 



