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logiie of Membracidae and Mr. C. E. Olsen furnished us with 

 nine additional ones. Through the kindness of Mr. Olsen and 

 Mr. A. J. Mutchler, about half of these references were looked 

 over in the library of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. From them it was gathered that the species is quite com-' 

 mon in many parts of Europe. Curtis in 1840 (Brit. Ent. PI. 

 313) figured the adult and structural details together with an 

 illustration of the food plant. Genista tinctoria. Buckton ( 1840 

 Mon. Brit. Cicad. vol. I, p. 7) stated that but one species of the 

 genus was known from Britain and that it was rare and smaller 

 than coniutus with which it was confused. He also figures 

 the adults. 



Distant (1907 Fauna Brit. Ind. IV, 60) states that gcnistac 

 is a Palearctic species, the genus being distributed as follows : 

 Palearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Malayan and some portions 

 of Australasian Region. 



Butterflies of the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona 



(Lepid., Rhop.). 



By WITHER STONE, 

 The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 



This collection was made during a sojourn in Pinery Can- 

 yon, in the Chiricahua Mountains, from May 19 to August 1, 

 1919, as the guest of Mr. Eugene Law, of Berkeley, California. 

 Most of our time was spent in camp in the oak and juniper 

 belt, at 6000 feet, where openings near the stream made pos- 

 sible the raising of small patches of alfalfa, which when in 

 bloom simply swarmed with butterflies. Eater we camped at 

 6500 feet, in a region in which pines predominated, and from 

 which the trail ascended to the high peaks Ida's, Barfoot 

 and Monument, which tower above the head of the canyon. 

 The slopes of these mountains are covered with pines and 

 Douglas fir, while the peaks themselves are more or less bald 

 and flanked by aspen thickets. From our lower camp num- 

 erous trips were made to the foot hills at the mouth of the 

 canyon and out onto the desert, which has an average altitude 

 of 4000 feet. 



