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open places up to the gorge or Notch and along the road on the 

 northwestern descent, and were accompanied by this fine butter- 

 fly, wliich occurred nowhere else, disappearing with the flower 

 in the valleys and plains, and not seen at the Franconia Notch 

 at all. Not having ascended the White ]\Iountains above 

 the recrion of the trees, I missed obtaining the HipparcMa 

 (^CMonohciii) semidea, peculiar to this region ; nor was it found 

 on the Franconia Mountains. At the latter place, I got speci- 

 mens of Eledona cornuta in tree Boleti and Nitidida grossa 

 under bark of decayed trees, and was sufficiently bitten with 

 Simidium molestum. Every mud-puddle was surrounded by 

 swarms of CuUas Fhilodice, and a few insignificant Hesperice 

 were seen in the meadows. All the way, except among the 

 White ]\Iountains, the note of the Cicada canicidarh Avas heard 

 in the day and one specimen was taken on Kearsarge Mountain. 

 In a few places near the mountains the Avhite butterfly, Fonda 

 oleracea [PI. IV, figs. 9-11], was observed hovering on the wild 

 mustard and a single male specimen of the rare and curious 

 ^Egeria caudata was taken on the blackberry at Jackson, near 

 the falls of the Ellis river, which we visited from North Conway. 

 I caught at Franconia another curious Mgeria with pectinated 

 antennae, new to me, and the type of a new sub-genus. None 

 of the Ceramhycidce or Biqjrestida;, excepting B. fasciata, were 

 taken in the journey, although diligently sought for on the 

 trunks of trees, whenever opportunity offered. Almost the 

 only hemipterous insects observed were Phytocoris linearis^ 

 not excepting Cimex lectularius, which never once occurred! 

 Neither Clerus NuttaUii, Pytlio nitidus, Dendroides canadensis^ 

 nor other northern insects, which were expected to be seen, 

 were found. I searched the flowers of Clematis virgimana, 

 which appeared occasionally on the banks of rivers and brooks, 

 but found no specimens of Cantharis marginata upon them. 

 Indeed, I never before spent so much time in the open air in 

 the summer, with fewer insect acquisitions. The excursion 

 nevertheless was abundantly enjoyed in other respects ; and as 



