5/16/1960 Truchee River S. of Squaw Valley Rd., Placer Co., Calif. it is dryer and there is some goose berry and a yellow, but dry, species of Erioginum among the pines and alders. There is a sage-like flowers that grows along the highway that is good for saepium & shippers (we encountered the same plant from Montana to central Nevada on the way back from New York, and also found it very good). I got a f h. edithe. along here. Apparently there are only two species of shippers, the one we got & P. ruralis. We saw a few P. mylitta. Dragonflies are not very numerous, all we saw being Anay. When we got back to where the car was parked, it was gone. The rest of the family had gone up the river to look for us, so we went after them. When we got together again, we went near the bridge (on the Squaw- Valley side). The elevation of the bridge is 6128 ft on my topo maps. Here the yellow sage-like plant grew in abundance in the dry rocky soil. There were no herptiles here either, but saepium and avota were numerous here, and we also got a few gray hairstreaks. Tony got a big, but torn f Spylevia coronis (Snyder?). No one got any fish, but Mom said the fish nibbled all the bait off the hooks at the first place. I finnally got some f saepium, but only 1 perfect pair. I also got a couple of good avota ds (and c perfect f), but the Mitsura was the real prize. Tomorrow Tony and I may try for the Five Lakes again, and thursday, Mt. Rose? 5/16/1960 Squaw Meadows, Squaw Valley, Placer Co., Calif. - Dad told Tony and me that, during a walk, they (he, Mom, the twins & Bruce) saw a "spotted frog" at a