A NEW NYMPHALID BUTTERFLY — CLARK 221 



Later Professor Woodruff was so kind as to send lis his specimens 

 for examination. 



All the individuals of Polygon'm faunm that we captured, the two 

 in the National Museum collection from Grandfather Mountain and 

 Andrews Bald, and those sent us by Professor Woodruff differ mark- 

 edly from the large number at hand from New York and New Eng- 

 land and northward and northwestward. It is therefore clear that 

 there is a distinct southeastern race of this butterfly confined to the 

 narrow and more or less discontinuous southern extension of the 

 Canadian Zone. This may be known as 



POLYGONIA FAUNUS SMYTHI, new subspecies 



Plate 10, Figures 1-6 



Descnption. — Kesembling Polygoma f annus faunm, but slightly 

 larger; above, darker, the ground color slightly more reddish, the 

 dark markings blackish brown, and the submarginal spots in the 

 dark border of the hind wings usually smaller, often obsolescent; 

 heJou\ darker, usually much darker, the light and dark markings, 

 especially on the hind wings, less contrasting. 



Type specimen.— Fvom Mount Rogers (Balsam Mountain), Gray- 

 son County, Va., about 4,000 feet, male, July 15, 1936 : A. H. Clark. 

 U.S.N.M. no. 51846. 



Specimens examined. — Virginia: White Top Mountain, Grayson 

 County, July 10, 11, 1936, A. H. and L. F. Clark (five) ; Mount 

 Rogers, Grayson County, July 15, 1936, A. H. and L. F. Clark (one) ; 

 Mountain Lake, Giles County, July 7, 9, 15, 24, 1936, L. L. Woodruff 

 (four). North Carolina: Grandfather Mountain, Avery County, 

 about 6,000 feet, August 1892. T. L. Mead (one) ; Andrews B'ald, 

 Smoky Mountain Park, Swain County, 5,750 feet, August 22, 1928, 

 A. G. Richards, Jr. (one). 



Range. — West Virginia : No further data (W. H. Edwards) ; c-en- 

 tral West Virginia, about 3,500 feet (F. E. Brooks) . Virginia : Blacks- 

 burg. Montgomery County (E. A. Smyth, Jr.) ; Mountain Lake, 

 Giles County (L. L. Woodruff) : White Top Mountain and Mount 

 Rogers, above 4,000 feet (A. H. and L. F. Clark). North Carolina: 

 Grandfather Mountain, Avery County, 4,000 to 5,000 feet (T. L. 

 Mead): Cranberry, Avery County, 3.250 feet (H. Skinner); Blow- 

 ing Rock, Watauga County, 4,000 feet (Brimley and Sherman) ; 

 Mount Mitchell, Yancey County. 6,000 feet, August 20, 1926, J. C. 

 Crawford (C. S. Brimley, in Jitt.) ; Big Pisgah Mountain, Haywood 

 County, 4,800 feet, July 19, 1932, common (Henry K. Townes, Jr., 

 in lift.) ; Andrews Bald. Smoky Mountain Park, Swain County, 

 5,950 feet (A. G. Richards. Jr.) ; Smokemont, Swain County, June 

 30, 1934, T. B. Mitchell (C. S. Brimley, in litt.) ; Cedar Mountain, 

 Transylvania County, 2,700 feet, Henry K. Townes, Jr. (A. G. Rich- 



