17, 1960 Five Lakes, near Squaw Valley, Placer Co., Calif. lakes, one after a Aeschna. Along the edge we frightened a few Rana, but only caught one. Finally we reached a second lake and here saw more Aeschna and Rana. At a spot along this lake I stopped to catch Aeschnas. Here I discovered the bag with the Hyks was missing. I also caught the shoulder strap of my pack on an old log, and ripped it in two. About 6 times while I was getting my equipment together, an Aeschna would come by and hover in front of me, and just as I would get my net ready, it would fly away. This was very annoying. I did manage to get a tortoise-shell though. At the end of this lake there was a bushy area with lots of daisies growing in the grass on the ground, but no butterflies. There were a few people fishing along the lake, and they gave me the impression there is an easier way to get here than the one we took. After it appeared there was nothing at the lakes (we saw a pine white, a crescent, and a morning-cloak plus the tortoise shell) except occasional butterflies, Aeschnas, and Rana, for which I now had no bag, we decided to head back now. On the way back along this same lake I found the bag I had dropped, so now we could collect Rana, and began to do so at once. We got two Rana and a Hyds along a quiet stretch, and more Rana in the channel between the two lakes we visited. I got 2 of them and Tony got a pair of Aeschna. The first one was flying behind the specimen I was swinging for, but was quite satisfactory. While we were collecting Rana s here, every time we would go after a frog, an Aeschna would come investigate us, so finally one of us