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open places up to the gorge or Notch and along the road on the 

 northwestern descent, and were accompanied by this fine butter- 

 fly, which occurred nowhere else, disappearing with the flower 

 in the valleys and plains, and not seen at the Franconia Notch 

 at all. Not having ascended the White Mountains above 

 the region of the trees, I missed obtaining the Hipparchia 

 (Chionolas) semidea, peculiar to this region ; nor was it found 

 on the Franconia Mountains. At the latter place, I got speci- 

 mens of Eledona cornuta in tree Boleti and Nitidula grossa 

 under bark of decayed trees, and was sufficiently bitten with 

 Simulium molestum. Every mud-puddle was surrounded by 

 swarms of Colias Pliilodice, and a few insignificant ffesperice 

 were seen in the meadows. All the way, except among the 

 White Mountains, the note of the Cicada canicular is was heard 

 in the day and one specimen was taken on Kearsarge Mountain. 

 In a few places near the mountains the white butterfly, Pontia 

 oleracea [PI. IV, figs. 9-11], was observed hovering on the wild 

 mustard and a single male specimen of the rare and curious 

 JEcjeria caudata was taken on the blackberry at Jackson, near 

 the falls of the Ellis river, which we visited from North Conway. 

 I caught at Franconia another curious JEgeria with pectinated 

 antennae, new to me, and the type of a new sub-genus. None 

 of the Cerambycidce or Buprestidce, excepting B. fasciata, were 

 taken in the journey, although diligently sought for on the 

 trunks of trees, whenever opportunity offered. Almost the 

 only hemipterous insects observed were Pliytocoris linearis, 

 not excepting Cimex lectularius, which never once occurred! 

 Neither Clems Nuttallii, PytJio nitidus, Dendroides canadensis, 

 nor other northern insects, which were expected to be seen, 

 were found. I searched the flowers of Clematis virytniana, 

 which appeared occasionally on the banks of rivers and brooks, 

 but found no specimens of Cantharis marginata upon them. 

 Indeed, I never before spent so much time in the open air in 

 the summer, with fewer insect acquisitions. The excursion 

 nevertheless was abundantly enjoyed in other respects ; and as 



