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twelve species occur abundantly in New England, three more extend 

 nearly or quite as far south as the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, 

 and two or three are found in California; three occur in, or are inti- 

 mately allied to others inhabiting the Rocky Mountain region near our 

 own parallel, and one of them has been previously described only 

 from central Siberia. On the whole the fauna does not seem to be a 

 distinctive one, but to unite in itself the characters of the elevated 

 portions of the whole of boreal America, from ocean to ocean, and, in 

 part, those of the neighboring portions of the Asiatic continent; the 

 foundation, however, is formed of types characteristic of the great 

 interior of the continent north of the United States. Judging by the 

 specimens brought home, the three most abundant species are Papilio 

 Turnus, Pieris venosa and Papilio Aliaska\ and it is a little remarka- 

 ble that each of these species is characteristic of one of the three great 

 divisions, — eastern, western and central boreal America. 



Mr. S. H. Scuclcler presented the following notice of a new 

 cave insect from New Zealand. 



The loner limbed Locustarian of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky 

 was described at about the same time by de Saussure and by myself 

 as a species of Rhaphidophora ; subsequently I showed that this insect 

 was the type of a distinct genus, which I called Hadenoecus,. and sug- 

 gested that one of the cave-Locustarians of Europe, which I had 

 never seen in nature, might belong to the same genus. Specimens 

 of each species received since then have shown both that Rhaphido- 

 phora palpata (Sulz.) Charp., belongs to Hadenoecus, and that R. 

 cavicola (KoU.) Fisch., belongs to the genus Ceuthophilus; therefore 

 no true species of Rhaphidophora occurs either in Europe or America. 



It o-ives me pleasure to announce an additional species of Haden- 

 oecus from quite another quarter of the globe. 



Hadenoecus Edwardsii nov. sp. 



Body uniform brownish fuscous; front pale fuscous; palpi, tarsi and 

 apical third of tibiae pale; antennaj brownish fuscous. Length of 

 pronotum 6 ""•; of thoracic nota together 11.5 '""■; of antennas 

 120"'"-; of maxillary palpi 18.5 ""•; of fore tibia; 23 °'°'-; of hind 

 tibias 40 ""•. 



One imperfect specimen of this species, much the largest of the 

 genus, was presented to me by my friend, Mr. Henry Edwards, who 

 captured it himself in a limestone cave at Collingwood, Massacre 



