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die as one goes north. I think this is also true of the western 

 part of the continent. 



On the bare, wind-swept rocks of Carter's Dome we took 

 various good Elaterids : Lcptnroidcs dcnticornis Kby., Ludius 

 spinosiis Lee., vireiis Schrank, triundtilatus Rand., etc. This 

 type of collecting is much like picking berries, you scramble 

 over the rocks and gather in the crop, with always those superb 

 glimpses of tumbled mountains below you. But atmospheric 

 conditions must be just right, bright sunshine and not too 

 strong a breeze. Some days we found no insects on the 

 summits. 



Carter's Notch near the little lake yielded some interesting 

 things: Scotodcs americanus Horn, Phryganophilus collaris 

 Lee. ( n rare Melandryid), Schizotits ccri'icalis Xewm. and 

 Pcdihts cvanipcnnis Bland., sunning themselves on fallen tim- 

 ber. Some skinned poplar logs attracted Gaurotcs abdominalis 

 Bland.. Anthnphilax attcnitatus Hald. and other longicorns. 

 DicJiclony.r subvittata Lee., together with numerous Buprestids 

 and Elaterids were beaten from oak, spruce and pine. In vain 

 I searched near the type locality for Cicindela ancocisconensis 

 Harr. ; I think we were too early. Clerids were few, probably 

 for the same reason. 



The above is by no means a complete list of species, only 

 the more striking captures being noted, a large number of 

 other boreal ( 'oleoptera having been taken. Tn the valley the 

 fauna was typically New England and general run; practically 

 all the rarer species were found between three thousand and 

 fifty-five hundred feet elevation. 



This tract of the \Yhite Mountains is a most interesting 

 region, a lovely sylvan country of running mountain streams 

 clear and cold, where the Pipes of Pan will wlvstle to you all 

 day long and \\irh peaks high above timber-line to add a certain 

 grandeur to it all. not often found among our eastern hills. The 

 collecting, to be sure, is not bi/nrre and exotic like the tropics, 

 neither are you subjected to the excessive discomforts of those 

 hot countries. One great advantage, these mountains are almost 

 in our back gardens; a trip of but fifteen hours by rail brings 

 you to their very gateway. So 1 say to all entomologists, "why 

 not go !" 



