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began to rain, and the weather was so unfavorable the next day 

 that I was obliged to give up ascending Mount Washington. 

 It cleared off too late for us to ascend that day, and we con- 

 cluded to go on to Franconia, where we arrived at night. 

 There we remained two days ; some of the party ascended 

 Lafayette, a mountain almost as lofty as Mount Washington, 

 while others of us, myself included, tried the less toilsome and 

 shorter course up the Profile Mountain. As this was my first 

 visit to the mountains, it was greatly enjoyed, although in a 

 scientific way unproductive of results of any importance. 

 Throughout the whole excursion I was struck with the paucity 

 of species of insects observed, with the exception of those of the 

 genus Bombus, which were to be seen in great profusion on the 

 Canada thistles. Antennaria margaritacea Avas found in 

 abundance in almost all parts of our route, sometimes covering 

 whole fields with their white flowers, often of immense size and 

 great beauty ; but they were without any attractions to the 

 insect tribes, and were rarely touched by them. The fire-weed, 

 Epilobium spicatum, threw up a profusion of its showy purple- 

 flowered spikes wherever the wood had been burnt over ; but 

 these flowers also harbored very few insects ; the golden-rod 

 was just coming into flower in Maine, and in some of the warm 

 valleys in New Hampshire, and where sufficiently expanded 

 had some insect visitors upon it, such as Lepturce, etc. A few 

 specimens of the beautiful northern Buprestis fasciata were 

 taken on Pleasant Mountain and on Kearsarge. On an island 

 in the Saco River at North Conway, I found Amphicoma vul- 

 pina, Platycerus piceus and Cimbex ulmi 9 > one specimen of 

 each. Three or four Cicinddce were also taken here, two of 

 which were varieties unknown to me, and perhaps new species. 

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Range, the beautiful Eupaiorium ayeratoides? first appeared, 

 and on the flowers, for the first time, was seen the fine Limem- 

 tis Arthemis, distinguishable even at a distance in flight, by its 

 broad bow on the dark wine's. These flowers were found in 



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