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passing another party coming up. On our way down this slope 

 I saw some white butterflies sailing leisurely around the tops of 

 the yellow pines ; I managed to catch two specimens from my 

 riding horse, which proved to be Neophasia menapia, the first 

 time I had seen the species in life. We reached Kanawyer's 

 about noon, after a most charming ride through the canyon, 

 looking up at the great granite cliffs and domes rising a mile or 

 more above us, crossing the bridge over the good-sized King 

 River, and the groves of golden and Kellogg oaks, and yellow 

 and sugar pines. It was an experience entirely new to me and 

 so the impression was great and indescribable. At Kanawyer's 

 we had a fine dinner including trout ; in the afternoon we selected 

 a camp site for our two weeks' stay, down near the river, a fine 

 place except for the mosquitoes at times. That night was espe- 

 cially and uncomfortably warm and close. 



Next day I walked down the canyon to Cedar Grove and 

 part way up the slope of the previous day's descent, with the 

 idea particularly of obtaining more specimens of the interesting 

 pine butterfly — the only one living on pines except another of the 

 same genus in southern Arizona and Mexico ; I took eight speci- 

 mens and the packer captured one near Kanawyer's on my re- 

 turn. Saw also Junania coonia, Colias eurytheme, Argynnis 

 monticola, Anosia plexippus, Pyrameis cardui — all except the 

 Argynnis and Neophasia widespread in distribution. Also near 

 Cedar Grove took a fine specimen of Meganostoma cccsonia or 

 perhaps being an atavistic specimen of our western dog's head 

 butterfly, M. eurydice. Thecla grunus was numerous around 

 the Golden Oaks ; also in the same places, Heterochroa cali- 

 fornica; Lyccrna acmon was common as elsewhere. Saw a few 

 wary underwing moths, Catocala, around the trunks of the trees, 

 of which a specimen was taken near Kanawyer's. 



On July 26 we went to the upper end of Paradise Valley on 

 the South Fork, where the mosquitoes were worse than ever and 

 almost intolerable, but with fine trout fishing. The canyon is a 

 wonderful rocky gorge with many beautiful cascades and snow- 

 slides. Found the pine butterfly here, also the Argynnis, and a 

 large moth, Pseudohazis eglanterina. 



