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began to rain, and the weather was so unfavorable the next day 

 that I Avas obhged to give up ascending Mount Washington. 

 It cleared off too late for us to ascend that day, and we con- 

 cluded to go on to Franconia, where Ave arrived at night. 

 There Ave remained two days ; some of the party ascended 

 Lafayette, a mountain almost as lofty as Mount Washington, 

 while others of us, myself included, tried the less toilsome and 

 shorter course up the Profile Mountain. As this Avas my first 

 visit to the mountains, it AA'as greatly enjoyed, although in a 

 scientific Avay unproductive of results of any importance. 

 Throughout the Avhole excursion I Avas struck Avith the paucity 

 of species of insects observed, Avith the exception of those of the 

 genus Bombus, Avhich were to be seen in great profusion on the 

 Canada thistles. Antennaria margaritacea was found in 

 abundance in almost all parts of our route, sometimes covering 

 whole fields with their Avhite flowers, often of immense size and 

 great beauty ; but they Avere Avithout any attractions to the 

 insect tribes, and Avere rarely touched by them. The fire-Aveed, 

 Epilohium sjncatum, thrcAv up a profusion of its shoAvy purple- 

 flowered spikes AvhercA-er the Avood had been burnt over ; but 

 these floAvers also harbored very fcAv insects ; the golden-rod 

 was just coming into floAver in Maine, and in some of the Avarm 

 valleys in Ncav Hampshire, and Avhere sufficiently expanded 

 had some insect visitors upon it, such as Lepturce^ etc. A few 

 specimens of the beautiful northern JBuprestis fasciata Avere 

 taken on Pleasant Mountain and on Kearsarge. On an island 

 in the Saco River at North CouAvay, I found Amjjhicoma vul- 

 pina, Platycerus piceus and Cimbex ulmi 9 -, one specimen of 

 each. Three or four Cicindelce Avere also taken here, tAvo of 

 which were varieties unknoAvn to me, and perhaps ncAv species. 

 At Bartlett, where we began to ascend the White Mountain 

 Range, the beautiful Eupatorium ageratoides? first appeared, 

 and on the flowers, for the first time, Avas seen the fine Limeni- 

 tis Arthemis, distinguishable even at a distance in flight, by its 

 broad boAv on the dark Avings. These flowers were found in 



