94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '07 



List of Butterflies of North Carolina. 



BY C. S. BRIMLEY AND FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR , 



Raleigh, N. C. 



The records presented in this paper are gathered mainly 

 from the experience of the authors. Mr. Brimley has for many 

 years kept a record of the more common species occurring at 

 Raleigh, and of recent years his list has been extended and 

 kept with even greater care and detail. The notes on seasonal 

 distribution are based mainly on his records, amended to con- 

 form to the records obtained in other localities. Mr. Sherman 

 has collected many specimens from widely separated localities 

 throughout the State, and it is mainly from his records that 

 the geographical distribution is given. 



Notes on the occurrence of eighty species at Try on, at the 

 edge of the mountains near the South Carolina line, have been 

 kindty furnished by Mr. W. F. Fiske, Special Agent, Bureau 

 of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. A list of 

 species known at Cranberry, in the mountains near the Ten- 

 nessee border (where high mountains furnish a touch of boreal 

 fauna), was published by Dr. Henry Skinner, in ENT. NEWS, 

 March, 1893. Another list for the same locality, by Mr. 

 Lancaster Thomas, appeared in the NEWS for May, 1899. A 

 number of scattered records from various localities are from 

 captures by representatives of the North Carolina Department 

 of Agriculture and from reliable published records. 



Our survey of the butterfly fauna of the State is by no means 

 complete. While we believe that we have collected nearly all 

 of the species (one hundred and eleven being here recorded), 

 there are no doubt several, especially among the Hesperidae, 

 which we lack, and extensive collections have been made in so 

 few localities that much is yet to be added to our knowledge 

 of exact distribution. But, as we have both ceased to actively 

 collect these insects, we feel that it is best to publish the list 

 while the records are fresh. 



We have here followed the classification of Smith's Check- 

 list of Lepidoptera (1903), and, although we prefer the sepa- 

 tion of the Pierids as a separate family, we believe the sequence 



