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thickets, in hemlock-rhododendron stands, and on wet exposed rock 

 cUffs. None have yet been found in copulation, and I know nothing 

 of the immature stages. B. media certainly cannot be collected as 

 easily as its congener B. stricta although it is often locally abundant 

 and occurs over nearly as great a geographic area. 



Figure 13. — Distribution records for Boraria media (Chamberlin). Except in two cases, 

 each dot is a separate collection; near Grandfather Mountain, N.C., several adjacent 

 sites are covered by a single dot. 



Distribution. — The mountains of western North Carolina and 

 adjacent east Tennessee (fig. 13). Almost certainly the species 

 occurs in north Georgia and southwest Virginia and is to be expected 

 in these areas. All but one of the known localities are in the higher 

 mountain region, at elevations ranging from 3000 to 6600 feet. The 

 exceptional locality — in Wilkes County, North Carolina — is con- 

 siderably lower and somewhat to the east of the Blue Ridge, but the 

 specimens from there are entirely typical and similar to those from 

 the center of the range. 



