256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



Tyndarus Esp. — Found in the Rocky Mountains, and in the 

 Alpine regions of various parts of Europe. 



Mairdalena Streck. — An ahnost unicolorous blackish species 

 whose nearest ally would be the old world species alecto Hiib. 



HaydeniiV^I . H. Edw. — With this I am unacquainted. 



Vesagus Dbldy.-Hew. is not an Erebia, nor even a North 

 American insect, but is a South American species belonging to 

 the genus Lymanopoda. 



COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.-Part I. 



li. THE STIKIXE RIVER. 



By H. F. WiCKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. 



The Stikine River is one of the largest of the streams flowing 

 into the Pacific through our Alaskan territory. It is of sufficient 

 size to permit of navigation by steamers of three and one-half to 

 four feet draught, and with powerful engines, from the mouth to 

 Glenora, and occasionally to Telegraph Creek, twelve miles 

 further on, a total distance of about 138 miles. A little above 

 this point is the " Great Caflon," where the current is too swift 

 and the water too rough for the passage even of canoes in the 

 skillful hands of native Indians.^ 



Leaving Fort Wrangel at high tide, early on the morning of 

 the nth of July, we were soon over the bar which stretches across 

 the mouth of the river; just here the current is not very swift, 

 but on ascending a little distance it becomes apparent that the 

 engines are being» worked to nearly their full capacity in order to 

 make any headway. At our first stop, made for the .purpose of 

 taking wood aboard, I got out and tried to find some insects, but 

 with the exception of a few Bembidiiim qiiadrifoveolatian, taken 

 from beneath the bottom logs in the wood-pile, nothing of the 

 sort was visible — always leaving out of account the mosquitoes, 

 midges and Tabanidae, which, on the contrary, were seldom ab- 

 sent. The undergrowth here was too thick to penetrate without 

 an axe, and, even had there been time to cut a patch througli 

 the bushes, the fallen timber presented an almost impassable 



• See Annual Report of the Geofogical and Nat. Hist. Survey of Canada, new series. 

 Vol. Ill, Part I, 18S8. The reader is referred to Report B,— "On an exploration in the 

 Yukon District. N. W. T. and adjacent northern portion of British Columbia" by (ieorge 

 M. Dawson, D.S., F.G.S., for further information regarding geography and history. The 

 writer acknowledges his indebtedness to this Report in determining distances traveled. 



