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It is well to take notice that the word mosquito is American, 

 and not European. The English equivalent is gnat. This latter 

 will appear many times in future pages of a history of insects. 



We note the Sanscrit idea of preservation of all Hfe, since it 

 may contain a transmigrating soul. Every insect must be saved 

 in early India, even to the fleas and that which is generally 

 translated as " bug " and can only apply to the cosmopolitan and 

 prehistoric bedbug. The Rabbinical Hebrew cosmogony of the 

 flies does not differ far from the Zend and Sanscrit. Lilith, who 

 was Adam's first wife, she with hair like ropes of gold (Eve being 

 brunette to the point of Ethiopianism) , after a divorce married 

 Beelzebub, prince of devils, and bore to him a troublesome 

 progeny, including the flies and other noxious insects. Of this 

 idea of preservation there is a curious survival even today, in 

 Egypt, especially, where the chief cause of the horrible ophthalmia 

 everywhere present is the superstitious fear of brushing away the 

 flies, even from one's eyelids. 



SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF KING 



RIVER CANYON, SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS, 



CALIFORNIA. 



By Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., Los Angeles, Calif. 



From July 20 to August 16, 1914, Mr. R. L. Beardsley and 

 the writer crossed the great Sierra Nevada range of mountains 

 from Sanger in the San Joaquin Valley to Independence in 

 Owen's Valley — just one month — spending two weeks in the 

 wonderful gorge of King River canyon, near Kanawyer's. 

 From Sanger to Hume Lake consumed one whole day's auto 

 stage ride, going through the General Grant National Park of 

 giant redwood trees ; and from Hume to Kanawyer's a day and 

 a half horseback ride, the night being spent at Horse Corral 

 Meadows ; next morning, July 24, we got an early start and rode 

 through the beautiful forests and soon after passing Summit 

 Meadows we got our first glimpse of the King's River canyon, 

 and also began the rather rapid descent into the canyon bottom, 



