So ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, 



Two weeks' collecting in N. Carolina by Henry Skinner, M.D., 

 and description of a new moth by Prof. John B. Smith. 



The two weeks began July yth, extending to July 2ist. The time 

 was mostly spent at Cranberry, Mitchell County. Cranberry is 

 situated at an elevation of 3250 feet, and is a mining village, the 

 terminus of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina 

 Railroad. I was accompanied by my friend, Mr. Philip Laurent, 

 who gave an account of the Coleoptera taken on the trip in the 

 January NEWS. The hotel at Cranberry is a model of comfort, 

 and the table all that can be desired, and any entomological 

 friends who wish to enjoy a stay in the mountains will be well 

 treated at that place. We started out with great expectations, 

 hoping to find new or modified Southern species, but were greatly 

 disappointed, as the elevation of the region makes the fauna 

 Canadian in character, as pointed out by Mr. Theodore L. Mead 

 in an interesting article entitled, "Butterflies of Grandfather 

 Mountain, North Carolina (Can. Ent. xxiv, 313)." Mr. Mead's 

 experience was nearly the same as our own, but it is interesting 

 to compare notes, even by collectors in practically the same field, 

 and at nearly the same time of year. His stay was from July to 

 September, and Grandfather Mountain is only a little over eleven 

 miles from Cranberry. A part of Mr. Mead's description is as 

 follows: "' Grandfather Mountain is one of a group of mountains 

 rising to a height of over 6000 feet in western North Carolina 

 and eastern Tennessee, and forming the topmost crest of the 

 Alleghanies." It is said that there are more than twenty-five 

 peaks in this region higher than Mt. Washington, N. H. "The 

 whole region one would suppose to be a paradise for mountain 

 butterflies, and especially Satyridas, which are well represented 

 in the foothills and lower valleys of the Alleghanies. To my 

 surprise I did not see a single Satyrid of any species during my 

 stay, either at Linville (3800 feet), or at any higher point." (Mead) 



Our experience with the Satyrids was not quite as meagre, as 

 we saw Neonympha cantlnis quite common on the wagon-road 

 between Cranberry and Linville. Argynnis diana we did not see 

 at all. Mr. Mead says: " A single A. diana was the only sug- 

 gestion of the rich butterfly fauna of West Virginia to the North 

 of us." Dr. Rex, a Philadelphia naturalist, says he saw diana 

 in great abundance on iron weed ( Vernonia} on the low lands 



