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West Virginia by Meyer. In 1887 he mentioned faunus from Vir- 

 ginia, probably in error for West Virginia. 



In 1892 Tlieodore L. Mead wrote that faunus is "abundant all 

 along the roadsides from 4,000 to 5,000 feet" on Grantlfather Moun- 

 tain in Mitchell (now Avery) County, N. C and in 189-') Dr. Henry 

 Skinner recorded faufivs from Cranberi'v. Avery County, at an 

 elevation of 3,250 feet. 



In 1905 F. E. Brooks recorded faunus from central West Virginia 

 at an altitude of 3,500 feet. 



C. S. Brimley and Franklin Sherman, Jr.. in 1907 recorded fauwrn 

 from Blowing Rock, Watauga County, N. C. at an altitude of 4,000 

 feet, and mentioned Dr. Skinner's record from Cranberry. 



Dr. A. Glenn Richards, Jr., in 1931 recorded faunux from Andrews 

 Bald in Swain County, N. C, where he found it on August 21-23, 

 1928. and noted that Henry K. Townes, Jr., had taken it on Cedar 

 Mountain in southern North Carolina, very near the South Carolina 

 line, on July 24, 1929. 



Prof. Franklin Sherman has been so kind as to send us unpub- 

 lished records of this species from North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 and Georgia. His record from South Carolina is the first from 

 that State, and the two from Georgia are an interesting supplement 

 to the single previous record by Abbot more than 130 3'ears ago. 

 We are also greatly indebted to C. S. Brimley. of Raleigh, N. C, 

 who has sent us the records from North Carolina in the files of the 

 State Department of Agriculture, and to Henry K. Townes, Jr., 

 of Greenville, S. C, who has sent us his records from South and 

 North Carolina. 



There is no published record of the occurrence of this butterfly 

 in Virginia. We wrote to our friend Prof. Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., 

 of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Bhicksburg, Montgomery 

 County, now retired and living at Salem, and asked him if he knew 

 of any specimens from the State. He replied that in 1896 he had 

 raised five individuals from larvae that he had found (m gooseberry 

 bushes in his garden at Blacksburg. His identification of these had 

 been confirmed by William H. Edwards. 



As the butterfly is common on Grandfather Mountain, a few 

 miles south of the Virginia border, we assumed that it would be 

 equally common in and about the spruce forests on White Top and 

 Balsam Mountain (Mount Rogers), the highest mountains in Vir- 

 ginia, not far to the northward. We therefore visited these moun- 

 tains on July 9-15, 1936, and as we had expected found it in con- 

 siderable numbers, all the individuals being freslily emerged. 



On July 21 we visited the Biological Station of the University of 

 Virginia at Mountain Lake, in Giles County. Va., where we were told 

 bv Prof. Lorande Loss Woodruff that he had captured it there. 



