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up to the present, only a portion has been published. A very 

 consederable portion of the group is under study by Prof. Z. 

 P. Metcalf, and other portions are well represented in the col- 

 lections of Mr. C. S. Brimley, and the State Department of 

 Agriculture. 



(3) The third group, including the Dragon flies (also known 

 as Mosquito hawks), May-flies, Stone-flies and related forms, is 

 of relatively little economic importance, though many of them 

 are of extreme biological interest. Mr. Nathan Banks, of the 

 ^National Museum at Washington, found enough of interest in 

 the, North Carolina material submitted to him, so that he pub- 

 lished a list of the state species known to him. In the intro- 

 duction to his paper he says: 



''North Carolina has a large and interesting Neuropterid 

 fauna, and of particular interest is the Panorpodes, a genus 

 elsewhere known only from Oregon and Japan." Mr. Banks 

 has since done considerable collecting in vicinity of Black Moun- 

 tain. 



Of 'the sub-groups here represented our Dragon-flies (also 

 appropriately known as ''Mosquito Hawks") are perhaps best 

 known. As these insects are water-breeders the species are 

 more abundant in the east. Our approximately 100 species are 

 recorded from nearly 50 localities, and certainly include the 

 majority of species, yet the real Dragon-fly fauna of only one 

 locality (Raleigh) it at all thoroughly kno^\m (67 species). 

 Southern Pines and Ilavelock have a record of 32 to 39 species 

 each, Lumberton shows 20 on record, Avhile all the other locali- 

 ties show only a few each. 



(4) The Moths and Butterflies comprise the most popular 

 of all the groups of insects, on account of both the beauty and 

 harmlessness of the adults. The Moths especially are of econo- 

 mic importance as the caterpillars of many are very destructive. 

 The larger Moths occurring at Raleigh have been collected by 

 Mr. Brimley and some have been published, but there are a 

 host of smaller, hard-to-identify species which have been by no 

 means thoroughly worked up. The day-flying Butterflies 

 are better known though some additions are yet to be made in 

 the "skipper" group of Butterflies. 



