The flowers are purple. This violet 
grows in open ground by Willow creek. 
These are all the violets yet known from 
Custer county, two others are found in 
Colorado, and may yet be met with here. 
One, Viola palustris, or the marsh violet, 
grows like V. cucullata, and has round 
heart-shaped leaves, but the flowers are 
small, and in color pale lilac with purple 
streaks. The other, Viola biflora, the 
two-flowered violet, has a stem with two 
leaves and two flowers on it. The leaves 
are kidney shaped and the flowers are 
very small and yellow. 
The caterpillars of the Fritillary but- 
terflies (Argynnis) feed on violets. These 
caterpillars are spiny, and turn to large 
brown butterflies with silver spots on 
the under side of the lower wings. We 
have five species of those butterflies in 
western Custer county; one, Argynnis 
cypris, we found by Short creek, and the 
other four were taken by Mr. Nash at 
Music Pass. Their names are A. eury- 
nome, A. helena, A. eleta and A. hesperis. 
NOTES. 
On February 13th we noticed that the 
loco had already begun to sprout in west- 
ern Custer county. A few days before, 
we saw some horses busy on a loco patch. 
A selection of the fossils from Huerfa- 
no county, described in our fifth and sev- 
enth reports, has been sent to the U. S. 
National museum, where some of the 
shells have been kindly identified by Mr. 
C. A. White as follows: Ostrea blackii, 
white; Ostrea, sp; Inoceramus barabini, 
Morton; Lunatia concinna,- H. & M.; 
and Anchura? fusiformis, meek. 
We have found another kind of scale- 
louse on imported lemons, this time in a 
store in Silver Cliff. These lice are cir- 
cular in outline, and have been identified 
by Prof. C. V. Riley as Aspidiotus nerii. 
This species is figured and described in 
the Annual Report of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agricultural for 1880. 0 ~ 
Mr. Wm. Ashmead is now preparing a 
list of the Hymenoptera (Bees, wasps, 
ichneumons &c.) of Colorado, which it is 
hoped may be published before very long. 
He writes “It will be quite extensive, 
amounting to several hundred species.” 
Of these, many are undescribed, as for 
instance eight new species in a small col- 
lection we sent him recently, which are 
to be learned as follows: Menodontome- 
rus, montivagus, Epyris monticola, Mi- 
croplitis fuscipennis, Macrocentrus mon- 
tivagus, Adelura montana, Hopleseis fla- 
vinotatus, Stigmus coloradensis and Me- 
gacilissa monticola. Full details con- 
cerning these will be given in the list. 
Mr. C. F. Morrison has promised to 
edit Ornithological reports of the C. B. 
A., which will appear each month in “Or- 
nitholigist and Oologist.” He will be 
glad if members will send him notes 
about the occurrence of birds, their food- 
habits, migration*' nesting, and so forth, 
for incorporation in these reports. .He 
will also be glad of specimens of bird 
skins, nests, or eggs, to form a nucleus 
for a future museum of the C. B. A. 
Mr. I. P. Norris will also be glad to re- 
ceive eggs of Colorado birds, and has 
kindly promised to prepare for us descrip- 
tions of such as are interesting. He has 
sent us a list of the Colorado birds of 
which the eggs are unknown or imper- 
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