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them as with the vegetation, as will be seen by the following serial notes, as 

 well as by the much longer list. Twenty species in all were seen, fourteen 

 of them not seen on the previous visit, while, more remarkable than that, 

 seven of the thirteen species before seen were not now observed. 



Basilai-chia artheniis, found previously in abundance as a larva just 

 out of hibernaculum, and B. disippe, sparingly in the same condition, 

 were not discovered at all. Hundreds or perhaps thousands of the shoots 

 of black birch were examined, as well as many poplars and willows in 

 suitable spots, without a trace of anything — not even of a leaf eaten in 

 Basilarchian fashion. 



A single specimen of Polygonia interrogationis uinbrosa was seen on 

 the yth, on the Notch road south of Emery's. 



Folygonia faimiis was taken or seen every day but the 3rd, on forest 

 roads ; perhaps two or three dozen in all were taken, and about a third 

 of them were females. None were seen beyond Emery's, and none in 

 walking from Gorham to the Glen, the latter on a somewhat cloudy after- 

 noon. 



P. gracilis was not met with. One butterfly was seen two miles up 

 the Mt. Washington carriage road, which looked very like P. comma, but 

 was perhaps P. faumcs. None of the females would lay eggs on young 

 willows, in their two or three days confinement in the Glen, nor on larger 

 plants in Cambridge after my return home. 



Polygonia progne and Nymphalis j-album were not seen this year. 



Two specimens of Papilio antiopa were seen, on the 4th and on the 

 7 th. 



No Aglais milberti was observed on this occasion. 



Two fresh specimens of Argynnis atlatitis were seen on the 7th, one 

 in the forest a short distance north of Emery's, the other half way from 

 there to Jackson. 



Fresh specimens of Brenthis myrina were seen every day after the 

 first (and either this or the next species on that day), and all taken were 

 males. The number increased from two on the 4th to three or four times 

 that number on the 7th, before reaching Emery's, and after that as many 

 more, though it was then after 3 o'clock. 



Unless the specimen seen the first day was Brefithis bellona, this 

 species was only seen on the 5th, in a few examples, in which both sexes 

 were represented, and all were more or less worn. 



Phyciodes batesii was seen on the 7 th, and of each sex, three or 



