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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 havino; ascended the White Mountains above 

 the region of the trees, I missed obtaining the Hqoparclda 

 (^Chionohas) semidea, peculiar to this region ; nor Avas it found 

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

 mens of Elcdona cornuta in tree Boleti and Nitidida grossa 

 under bark of decayed trees, and was sufficiently l)itten with 

 Simidhmi molestum. Every mud-puddle was surrounded by 

 sw'arms of Colias PhUodice, and a few insignificant HesperioB 

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

 White jNIountains, the note of the Cicada canicidaris was heard 

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

 In a few places near the mountains the wliite butterfly, Pontia 

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

 mustard and a single male specimen of the rare and curious 

 ^^(jeria caudata Avas taken on tlie blackberry at Jackson, near 

 the falls of the Ellis river, which we visited from North Conw^ay. 

 I caught at Franconia another curious jTlgeria with pectinated 

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

 of the Ceramhycidce or Bnprestida>, excepting B. fasciata, were 

 taken in the journey, although diligently sought for on the 

 trunks of trees, whenever opportiuiity offered. Almost the 

 only hemipterous insects observed Avere Phytocoris linearis^ 

 not excepting Cimex lectidariiis, which never once occurred! 

 Neither Clerus NuttalUi^ Pytho nitidus^ Dendroidcs canadensis^ 

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

 were found. I searched the flowers of Clematis viryiniana, 

 which a[)peared occasionally on the banks of riAers and brooks, 

 but found no specimens of Cantharis maryinata upon them. 

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

 the summer, Avitli fewer insect actpiisitions. The excursion 

 nevertheless was abundantly enjoyed in other respects ; and as 



