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Carolinian fauna, but it occupies also the southern third of the Allc- 

 ghanian, wiiere it is found in some abundance as far as the annual 

 isotherm of 55°, or even 50°, if not further. To the west it extends across 

 the continent, although it has rarely been reported west of the Great 

 Plains, excepting upon the Californian coast. Southward it extends to 

 the very extremity of Florida (Maynard), and is found sparingly in Cuba, 

 but is in great measure replaced by an allied species. It also occurs 

 along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico at least as far as the Rio Grande 

 (Aaron, Lintner) , and has been taken at various points m Mexico, — at San 

 Luis, Alvarez and the Sierra de San Mequilito, all near San Luis Potosi 

 (Palmer) , at the Sierra Nola not far from Mexico (Palmer) and at Cordova 

 (Salle). Eastward it has invaded Bermuda, and west of New England 

 the northernmost points from which it has been reported are the following : 

 Long Island (Graef, Akhurst, Smith), Staten Island (Davis), New Jer- 

 sey (Andrews), Ncwburgh, N. Y. (Edwards), Chatham, Ellis, Logan, 

 Stratford and Port Stanley, Ont. (Geddes, Saunders, Moffat, Denton) Day- 

 ton, O. (Pilate), northern Illinois (Worthington), Wisconsin (Hoy), 

 and Iowa (Allen, Parker, Osborn). There is a specimen in Geddes's col- 

 lection taken in the Kocky Mountains, north of our boundary ! In the 

 Sierra Nevada, at Summit Station, Baron Osten Sacken took it at a height 

 of 7000 feet, and it is reported from near Truckee, Nev. (McGlashan) 

 and at San Mateo, Cal. (Agassiz). 



It is exceedingly rare in New England and I accordingly quote all the 

 captures known to me. In Connecticut, Prof. S. I. Smith has seen 

 several specimens from the vicinity of New Haven, taken the last of Sep- 

 tember ; Mr. E. Norton has taken it near Farmington, and Mr. T. F. 

 McCurdy found the species somewhat plentiful one autumn in the vicinity 

 of Norwich. In Rhode Island, Col. T. W. Higginson reports several 

 from Newport. In Massachusetts, Mr. R. Thaxter has taken it in the 

 western part of the state ; Mr. Bennett (according to Mr. C. A. Emery) 

 captured a single specimen at Springfield ; Mr. F. H. Sprague took speci- 

 mens at Granby ; Prof. H. W. Parker took two and saw others at Amherst 

 between July 25 and August 4 ; about Boston it has been repeatedly 

 taken : by Mr. Sprague at Wollaston, Maiden, Jamaica Plain and in the 

 city itself, between July 18 and September 18, he having taken or seen 

 nearly a dozen specimens : at Natick by Mr. E. J. Smith, August 17 ; in 

 Weston and near Newton by Mr. Thaxter ; and by Dr. Harris long ago 

 in Milton, August 19. Mr. Sanborn took it in early August on Cape Cod, 

 I took one there on the 12th of that month, and there is a specimen in the 

 Cambridge jNIuseum collected at Taunton by Mr. Pepper. In New Hamp- 

 shire I took a specimen many years ago at Hampton Beach, on August 12, 

 then the northernmost point at which it had been found ; but since then 

 we have Mr. Chai'les A. Davis's capture of three specimens at Portsmouth, 



