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side is precipitous. The season was exceptionally 
i astarte evidently not yet out. Ncoarctia yarrowi has 
is coc bees taken on Piran, and today I found a half- 
ywn larva on a rock which was probably this species, and 
fal cast skins. The larvasrefused all food and died. Afe- 
# and Anthocharis creusa were other catches, at and 
timber. 
Siviky 7th T eecended Mount Stephen, Field, B. C., up to 
; or a little higher. I took a freshly emerged yarrow? 
| sitting on a rock in blazing hot sunshine. It made no at- 
mipt to escape, though its wings were dry. I caught @neis 
anit € and saw one or two more. A full-fed larva found 
hundred feet above timber produced Lycaena aguilo 3 
July 29th. On the 8th I went up Mount Field by way of 
_ Burgess Pass. Here again I took Ocneis beanii and saw three or 
four more. That was on a low spur overlooking the railway, 
by ne “means the highest point. Also a full-fed larva which 
Started to spin within four hours and produced a ¢ yarrow 
; uly 29th. He crippled very slightly in drying, not seem- 
g to understand climbing up sticks but wanting rocks. The 
fva was at rest in the hot sun. Today I got a thirty-yard 
w of a goat, which stood and stared at me but did not allow 
a On the 13th I made the ascent of a 
. probably nameless, about six or eight miles south- 
east of Windermere, B. C., by way of what is locally called 
“*Taggart's Pass."’ It is timbered practically to the summit, 
and probably scarcely over 7000 feet. Result, inter alia, two 
7? or three Ocncis beanii seen quite close but not captured. Pyrgus 
 eentaureae, one in fine condition, several hundred feet lower. 
This, by- the-way, I have from Lake Agnes, Laggan, much worn, 
ly 17, 1904. In Edward's Butterflies of North America, iii, 
"part xv, Mr. Bean writes: ‘‘ In 1890 I took one pair of Arg. 
alberta on a mountain near Hector, B. C., two miles west of 
| Alberta Province line. On that mountain lives Chionobas brucei, 
_ never yet observed at Laggan, only nine miles distant.’’ 
_ Mrs. Nicholl records both a/ierfa and astarte from Lake 
omg B. C., and the Yoho district. Nowhere there, how- 
, did she meet with Oencis brucei, though at my sugges- 
