LORQUINIA f9 
This little mountain race of Sabuleti described by Fordyce Grinnell 
Jr. (Ent. News, Jan. 1903) of which Wright's Chispa is a synonym, 
was very abundant all over the meadows. 
From the Sierra Club camp at Soda Springs looking towards 
the west is seen the Hoffman Range; to the south the Cathedral group 
consisting of Cathedral (11,000 feet), Unicorn (10,800 feet) and John- 
son (10,000 feet) Peaks; towards the southeast rises that fragment of 
tableland speared by the general erosion known as Kuna Crest, of 
which Mammoth Peak is the highest point (12,225 feet); while due 
east tower the massive red twin mountains of Dana and Gibbs, 13,000 
feet high or more. 
Towards the end of July I began to explore these higher altitudes, 
and about this time I noticed that Bnrymus behri Edw. had almost dis- 
appeared from the Tuolumme Meadows but begun to fly on the high 
glacial meadows from 9,000 to 10,000 feet elevation, having an appear- 
ance as if just emerged. I was therefore enabled to obtain a further 
large series of perfect specimens. 
Heodes mariposa Reak 
Heodes editha Mead 
About this date I also began to find these two species of Chryso- 
phaninae around the bluish-purple asters (Aster cancscens) in the 
meadows and sunny openings amongst the lodge pole pines (Piniis con- 
forta var. miirryana) at altitudes of not higher than 9,000 feet. 
On the twenty-seventh of July I joined a party of Sierra Club 
members for an ascent of Mt. Dana at the foot of which we camped 
for the night. Next morning, getting out of sleeping bags at day break, 
we found a heavy frost covering the ground, and after a hearty break- 
fast started up the trail through the pine forest following the Dana 
Creek. Reaching timberline we encountered a strong icy wind and 
found the streams frozen solid in many places.. Such conditions did 
not look promising for collecting. After a strenous scramble over huge 
granite rocks up the southern side of the mountain we at last gained 
the top and stood on the verge of the great precipice that forms the 
eastern face of the mountain and also the left-hand wall of Glacier 
Canyon. Directly beneath us at the head of this canyon was the small 
Dana Glacier, a remnant of the vast snowfield which formerly envel- 
oped the entire High Sierra. From the summit on which we stood, 
13050 feet and above the sea, only exceeded in altitude by Mt. Lyell, 
13030 feet and Mt. Ritter, 13156 feet, which rise with dazzling white- 
ness toward the south, there spread out before us a panorama of the 
High Sierra, peak after peak in almost endless succession as far as the 
eye could reach, the snowbanks near their summits glistening in the 
sun, whilst at varying elevations could be seen the deep blue of small 
glacial lakes and still ower down the dark sombre forests of pine. 
