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> lla suitable for running hundred-yard races, I saw 
w more and caught a fresh though slightly crippled ¢ 
is beanii. Then in went the sun for the day, and the day 
rade win; brought snow. That was on August 8th. I re- 
: L to the locality in Can. Ent., xxxiii, p. 161, as Slate 
n (I wrote southeast"by mistake), as it and its neigh- 
| » the west were marked on the map as ‘‘ Slate Range,”’ 
it ive failed to discover whether it has received a definite 
3 me even yet. Four days later I took another in even worse 
tion, on the top ridge of Sulphur Mountain just on the 
imber line, at about 7200 feet. Mr. Sanson’s capture on June 
es I think the earliest yet recorded, and that near the 
evil’s Lake, Banff, was recorded by me in the pages referred to. 
aout 18, 1904, after having waited round Lake Louise, 
, in company with Mrs. Nicholl for two days, wait- 
ag for a gleam of sunshine and breath of warm air, and 
z on snow-drifts to try and keep warm, I started alone on 
er visit to the ‘Slate Mountain’’ in most unpromising 
her. It did no better than it promised either, and the 
peeeerecting thing I found was a pair of ptarmigan with 
brood which, by-the-way, are less afraid of a man 
thar ithe average barn-door fowls. If anyone contemplates 
_ making a trip to that mountain for butterflies and back in a 
_ day, my advice is don'’#/ It is nearly three miles from Lake 
nis § to the station, and three more through burnt and fallen 
“ ber to the foot of the mountain. There are others far easier 
access and probably equally prolific or more so. 
m0 On the day following the sky had almost completely cleared, 
i I piloted Mrs. Nicholl up the trail to Saddle Back, about 
> miles from Lake Louise chalet. It was there on a grassy 
i heathery slope that I had taken what I never believe is 
Ca streckeri and which I recorded as nastes, and C. pelidne 
var. skinneri, and a worn specimen of Chrysophanus snowi. 
t that had been nearly three weeks later, and now the pre- 
is winter's snow had evidently not been long off the ground, 
n¢ ones nothing to be seen. As I had brought Mrs. 
choll up that height rather against her inclinations, I felt 
hat disgusted. We sat down on a fallen log (we were 
