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PSYCHE.ORGAN OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.

I,:1}I’PI,:I} BY B. I’ICKSIAN ,IANN.

Vol. I.] CambPidge, Mass., Noveml)eP, 1874. [No. 7.

Summer Butterflies at the White Mountains.I am idebted to MI’. 8rudder fop the pPivilee of examining

the adv:nee sleets of lis fortleoming" paler on ’ "Ple Distribu-tion of tle Inse{,ts in New Haml}sliPe." tIis lal}()Ps on themountain fill-lll:t lave been so tlm’ough that hearty all its char-aeteristie fi’atuPes lmve been reeoPded, at least so thr as tleDiurnal Iel)i{lol)tePa and Ot’tlol)tePa ape eon{’ePe<l. Still thecollections made (luPing the exem’sio) of tle OanbPide nto-mologieal 01ul> to Mt. Waslington, fP()m aune g; to 2uly 11,this yeaP, show tle oeeuPPenee of one new fi)Pn, and furnishdata fbr the determination of tle time of apl)eaPance ad rela-tive abundance of many others. The fi)llowin(,’ is a list of thebutterflies taken at tlat time.e[, ,e>M(lea Say. Nothing new was discovered in regard

to (his species. Tle fiPst specimens appeared al)ot ,luly 1st,and in a few days it became vePy abundant. Specinens weretaken as low down as Saborn’s caml) ()P ab()ut tle middle ofMe. 8euddeP’s sub-all)ine region. As semldea was tle o)lybutterfly eal)tuPe([ in numbePs, w]ieh has its lahitat on tlupper poPtion ()f tle nountain, but little ea) I)e pr()dueed, astr as the Diurnals are eoneemed, eitler in fitvoP of; oP ngainsttle pPesenee of two distinct faunal areas above’ tle tPee linebut in a list of the Noetuidm to appear in a thtuPe umber ofPSYCH, I have some observations to ogeP on the distPibutionof’ the moths, which bear on this point.Xnodia euwd[ee Linn. Two specimens eaptuPed in low

swampy fields, one below the first saw mill, on ame 9, an-otler neap the Glen ouse, on 2uly .#lelodes taaeo, Drury. Common in the Glen.Pageode, aa.r, 8endd. This species was found inhabiting

the same restricted localities in which Mr. Seudder observedtle larv,’e in tle spring. From June 27 to July 4 the imagineswere emerging, and i fine condition. After tlis date manypoor ones bega to be found.

.Pk.ei,des ,seteis 1)oubl. & Ilew. Two i very 1,,-,o"tion we’e taken on July g, on the Glen road, ab,ut ne mile

before tle second saw-mill.zlli,ea pheeo l)rury. Found abundatly on July 4.

ssvanp situated o tle Glen road, about fiu’ niles ft’,m

lam. ()n July , specimens were also taken .just abve tleGIe House, in a sinilar lcality.

Arl.qnnis zy’in, Cram. More or less eommo i swampsin tle valley.

A:q[/u;s )ontiuu.s Sendd. A specime wl,icl I }ave ot

seen, probably of tlis species, was cauglt abve tle Half WayHouse, by [r. Dimmoek on July. 1 _, after tle rest

party lad e.Ar/,quuis atlantis Edw. Began to appea" altttt ,ltle ;29,

and in a fev days became common. It was taket tlrou,.’l,t

tle valley, and about two miles up the nountai.H: K.

(To be contiliwd.)

ToVELTII,’S IN A.ttERST, ,IAss. So far as knovn, tle fi)llowin, spe-cies have no been taken hitherto in this vicinity" l’ar’ssrt

8tl, and bogh sexes afterward. ,[ttnouia eoeia, 9, a,ly rth. on thistlesa.lar expanse 1.80; , somewha win’n, Aug. 4th, caught tl)i’n after severe

ehase al. ex. 1.90" several othm> seen on ’oa.ds. Euto;et,ton thistles, Au,. 8d al. ex. .40. Cllani’i. sp on 3It Holw)ke,June 2rtl like neleeta, but uniform dusky ’a,y beneath, a ligltet" shade

edging the spots, and ln’eeedin,z fle m’eseents" above, dusky aray in placeof white. Qqani:is sp?, , Pelham hills, Aug. 17thlike nealeeta, exceptthe pri,na’ies above m’e much deeper blue, mixed with dusky. Neirhm" ofthese is lucia, nov a’ees satisfaetm’ily with named specimens of violacea

from V. II. Edw:u’ds. In regard to violaeea, I have a " specimen, dated

June 1, fouxd hm’e. ,,l:halaru. Llleidas, #, on It. l-Iolyke. ,lung, 25th.

Pholisora Catullus. #, in June" not -m’e on and aftra"ter Leonardts, 4 4, menti,ned only as em’ly for the species as recorded, Pel-ham hills, Aug. 17th. Prof. S. II. Peabody has taken Aand Poares Massasogt in this place, one specimen ot" each. H. 1I" Parl,’er.

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