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Annual Reports of Academy of 
THE SIERRA LA SAL, UTAH. 
By Henry Skinner, M.D., Sc. D. 
Some years ago, while on a collecting trip in the Wasatch moun- 
tains of Utah, I was told of another range of high mountains in 
the southeastern part of the State. They were said to have an 
abundant and rich vegetation and to be well watered by streams 
Eight Hours to go Twenty Miles. 
and some lakes. A locality of that description should have an 
interesting insect fauna and, so far as I knew, it had never been 
visited by an Entomologist, and I determined to go there some day 
if possible. 
In the spring of 1920, Mr. R. A. Leussler, a well known Lepi- 
dopterist, of Omaha, Nebraska, informed me he wished to go on 
a collecting trip and we planned to go to the Sierra La Sal. The 
conditions one may encounter are an unknown quantity and we 
did not know whether we would need guides, horses, or a camping 
outfit. Usually it is wise to get as much information as possible 
in advance but to a certain extent we decided to be governed by 
