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there is a crater lake, surrounded by talus, in which at that season 

 were some small fields of snow% on the north side of the mountain 

 crest, reaching down to the lake. A fine stream issued from this lake, 

 and passed through other smaller lakes, some of which were filled 

 completely with the debris of the mountain. The largest snow field 

 was on the south shore of the crater lake and was reflected in th.; 

 water like a giant spear-head. This extended up a rift in the wall of 

 rock about 200 feet and continued along the water for perhaps twice 

 that distance. There was no vegetation whatever around the lake, 

 the snow and rock coming sharply to the water's edge. One portion 

 of this snow field had a reddish tinge, which we took to be the effect 

 of dust, the mountain walls being very red. As we came nearer this 

 reddish tinge was overlaid by a very soft and unusual tint of green. 

 We were looking then toward the sun, and I thought it was an optical 

 effect, until we arrived at the edge of the lake. The snow then had 

 lost its brightness, and looked very dirty. Scattered all over it were 

 the torpid or dead bodies of the insects. A boy in the party called out, 

 'Look at the squash bugs !' I picked up and examined several speci- 

 mens. They were the color of fresh spring leaves ; had the flat thorax 

 and wing-shields, with the small head and the sucking-tube of the 

 Coreidae. I did not see any of them in motion, and concluded that 

 they had been paralyzed or killed by the cold. The fourth member 

 of our party to arrive said: 'Them's stink-bugs.' thus confirming my 

 conclusion. He also declared that he had seen that species on the 

 aspens at the foot of the mountain, but I had never observed them 

 there. The specimens which I observed, several hundred, were fully 

 developed, and capable of flight. I collected some, and intended giving 

 them to the University of Colorado, but an accident which happened 

 the same day took me away in great haste. I lost all my specimens, 

 and never was able to return to that spot. Nothing relative to this 

 expedition ever was published. 



Enos Mills, a well-known writer on Rocky Alountain natural history, 

 tells me that he has never encountered the Coreidae, but thinks they 

 'would most likeU^ be found in the high-lands of Southern Colorado." 

 — William O. Cone. 



So far as I know, there is no observation on record at all 

 comparable to this one made by Dean Cone and his party. 

 There can be little doubt as to the general position he has 

 assigned to these creatures which occurred in such great num- 

 bers. Mr. A. N. Caudell, in his paper on insects found on 

 Pikes Peak, read before the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington, February 13, 1902, records Lygaeus fiirciciis as "very 



