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Dublin. In the White Mountain region, and in northern New England 

 generally, it is e.xceedingly abundant, far more so than the other species 

 of the genus in their most favorable localities. Indeed, the matrons of 

 farm-houses, in the valley of Peabody river, complain of the insects 

 entering the kitchens in such numbers as to be a very nuisance. One of 

 them, Mrs. Dolly Copp, of "Imp cottage" (well known to many frequenters 

 of "the Glen"), relates how she has taken more than fifty on the inside 

 of her windows in a single morning. 



11. Polygonia intcrrogatioiiis Scudd. In New England this butterfly 

 is nowhere very abundant, and in the northern portions very rare. The 

 northernmost localities from which it is reported are Brunswick (Packard) 

 and Norway, Me. (Smith), and Walpole (Smith) and Milford, N. H., one 

 specimen only (Whitney). 



12. Polygonia comma Scudd. is found throughout New England, except- 

 ing in the White Mountain region, and perhaps other elevated portions of 

 the northern counties. It has, however, been taken on Camel's Hump, 

 Vt. (Sprague), and given as a probable inhabitant of Norway, Me. (Smith). 



13. Polygonia Fannus Scudd. This butterfly is as peculiar to the 

 Canadian fauna as P. comma is to the AUeghanian. In New England it 

 is found only in the north, the southernmost localities from which it has 

 been recorded being Williamstown, Mass. (Scudder), Dover and Camel's 

 Hump, Vt. (Sprague), Dublin (Faxon) and Milford, N. H., two specimens 

 (Whitney), and Norway, Me. (Smith). In the valleys of the White Moun- 

 tains it is exceedingly abundant, and is the butterfly oftenest seen in deep 

 ravines and on mountain slopes below the sub-alpine region. More than 

 any other species belonging to the mountain region, it mounts to the very 

 summit of the highest peaks, far above any plant upon which its larva 

 would be likely to feed. Edwards reports a single specimen from West 

 Virginia, and Abbott records it from the mountains of Georgia! I con- 

 sider P. gracilis a. dimorphic form of this species. 



14. Polygonia Progne Hiibn. [Plate A., Fig. 12.] The range of this 

 butterfly corresponds very closely with that of P. comma. In New Eng- 

 land it is more generally distributed and universally common than any 

 other species of Polygonia. It is somewhat more abundant in the south- 

 ern than in the northern parts, I have this spring taken a single specimen 

 in the White Mountain region. It is common in some seasons at 



