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mi'.Lio<;i; APIIY or TKTTIX MORSKI. 



Scudder. Can. Xat. vii. 2XS ; Scudder. Most, .loiirn. Nat. 

 Hist. vii.. 474; Scuddcr. (at. Orthopt.. X. Am., p. 4 49 ; 

 Bentenmuller. Des. Cat. Orthopt., X. Y., 809; Blatchley, 

 Can. Ent., XXVI, 220 ; Pdatchley List Orthopt. I ml. in Proc. 

 hid. Hort. Soc. 22 ; Eernald, Orthopt., New England, 46, fig.; 

 P>latchley, Can. Ent.. XXX, 64? Sendder, Alpine Orthopt,, 

 6; Brunner List, Xeb. Orthopt., 2S ; Bolivar Essai, Acrid, 

 tribn Tettigidiv, 91 ; Hancock Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., XXIII, 

 2:!7 fig.; Lugger, Orthopt., Minn.. 107 lig.; Packard Kept, 

 r. S Ent. Comiu. Appen. II. [2S] ; Morse. Psyche, Oct., ? 94. 

 154 ; Morse, Psyche, Xov., '!>4. (>7 ; Morse, Psyche. Mar., '94, 

 :>4 ; McXeil. Psyche, List. Orthopt . 111.. 'iU, 77 ; Eiley, 1st 

 K'ept, IT. S. Ent. Connn., 77. 240 fig.; Uiley. Xat. Hist. Arth 

 rop., Orthopt., II. 192 tig.; Smith, Econ. Ent., 'OK, 91 h'g. - 

 Thomas, Syn. Acrid. X. Am. Y. 7;!. 1SL' : ^Yalker. Can.. Ent .. 

 XXX, 123. 



THE CATOCALAE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 



r>y I'ljor. ELLISON A. SMYTH, .h;. 



The interesting commingling of Xorthcrn and subtropical 

 I'onns in the Lepidoptera t' the Alleghanian fauna is well 

 illustrated in the Catocalce of this county. The following notes 

 apply to the immediate neighborhood of Blacksburg, Mont- 

 gomery County, Virginia, among the Alleghanies and at an 

 dvation of about 2,.'>()0 feet. 



As far as my observations extend, based upon my own col- 

 lecting for a number of years, there are twenty-seven good 

 species of Ctocalu\ or, counting varietal forms, nearly forty 

 species and varieties found here. More strictly Northern arc 

 such species as C. paiiti, concumbens, Imbilis. jHtlcoganHt, etc.. 

 while the following Southern forms occur: ('. rldtiahi (in. 

 ( iiurxtom Halst. ), tfaxperufa (In., Im-hri/mowi and Mtpplto. The 

 past summer was the fii'st occasion of my linding ri<luata here. 

 This species was frequent, though not abundant ; and it was 

 with intense surprise thai 1 eagerly bottled two specimens of 

 ('. sappho, which I had heretofore seen only once alive, in lower 

 South Carolina. Mow these two species took me back to my 

 old collecting grounds, in th^ swamps near Charleston. S. C.. 



