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Vermont: Jay Peak (A. P. Morse). 



Massachusetts: Wiucliendon, AVellesley, Xeedham and Sherborn (A. P. 

 Morse) ; Maiden, Warwick, Cambridge, Medford and Eastport (Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.) ; Essex County and Mt. Tom(Gr. B. King) ; Lynn (Davis) ; 

 Boston and Woods Hole (Wheeler). 



Ehode Island: Providence (Davis). 



Connecticut: New Hartford and Orange (W. E. Britton) ; Colebrook 

 (Wheeler). 



New York: Ithaca (Cornell Univ. Coll.); Keene Valley, Essex 

 County, Oswego, Elizabeth, Karner, Cedar Hill and Saranac Lake (N. Y. 

 State Coll.) ; Boonville (E. G. Titus). 



Pennsylvania: White Haven (J. C. Bradley) ; North Mts. 



Indiana: Pine (W. S. Blatchley). 



Michigan: Ann Arbor (J. Dawson). 



Illinois: Eockford (Wheeler); Algonquin (W. A. Nason). 



Wisconsin: Milwaukee County ("WTieeler). 



Colorado: Williams Canyon, Manitou (Wheeler). 



Washington: Union City (J. C. Bradley). 



Oregon: (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). 



Although C. novehoracensis ranges across the continent from the At- 

 lantic to the Pacific, it is not known to occur further south than Mary- 

 land or further north than Nova Scotia. In the Atlantic states, it lives 

 by preference in hilly country, usualty at higher elevations than pennsyl- 

 vanicus and ferrugineus. To judge from the specimens before me. 

 novehoracensis exhibits very little variation in color. The specimens 

 from Washington, however, have the coarse opaque surface of wliymperi 

 and may be regarded as transitions to this variety. 



32. C. herculeanus ligniperda var. rubens Wheeler 



C. herculeanus ligniperdiis var. rulyens Wheeler, Psyche, p. 41, 2 $ , 1906 ; 

 Occas. Papers Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., VII, 7, p. 24, 1906. 



This variety differs from novehoracensis in having all the gastric segments 

 of the female deep red, except their posterior margins, which are black. The 

 male is indistinguishable from the male of novehoracensis. The worker forms 

 are unknown. 



Described from two females from Norwa}^ Maine (S. J. Smith) ; one 

 male and one female from Bethel, Maine (A. M. Edwards) and four 

 females taken in Michigan (Clark). 



It is somewhat doubtful whether this form can be maintained as an 

 independent variety. Eeexamination of the type specimens shows that 

 they are very old, and the red color of the gaster in the female may be 

 ■due to bleaching. 



