PIKHINAK: TONIIA PHOTODICE. HOT 



protoilice is recorded from British Coiiinil>ia (Edwards) to the San Joafliin 

 valley of California. It has l)een found in tlio Kofky Mountain region in 

 Colorado everywhere below timber (Iveakirt, Mead), — Middle ]*ark (Put- 

 nam), Denver, Georgetown (Mead), Webber Lake and Gray's Peak 

 (Osten Sacken) ; Spring Lake (Putnam), St. George and Paragoonah, 

 (Palmer), Salt Lake (Graef),and to the height of 11 ,000' in the Wali- 

 sateb Mountains, Utah (Shepard), tiie Big Horn Mountains and ^lontana 

 (P^lwards). In the southwest it has been brought from Arizona (Doll, 

 Mead), central Texas (Belfragc), southern Texas (Aaron, Lintncr), and 

 in Mexico beyond our borders at Kio Verde, Hacienda de Bledos and 

 Mount Alvarez (Palmer). It is common all along the Gulf coast, but in 

 Florida (Chapman, Abbot) and even in Georgia (Abbot), is reported as 

 very rare, and it does not a])poar that it extends any distance down the 

 Florida peninsula. In the northwest it has been found as far north as 

 Belly River, a branch of the Saskatchewan, by Captain Geddes, was brought 

 from Heart River and the Yellowstone in Dakota by Mr. Allen, and found 

 by myself at the mouth of the Red River of the North and in Minnesota. 

 One sjjecimen lias even been reported by Jenner Weir as taken at Moose 

 Factory, but perhaps the allied species nelsoni was mistaken for it. In 

 northern Wisconsin, according to Saunders, it is "quite common"; in 

 Michigan, "common," very common throughout Ohio. In southern 

 Ontario it was not uncommon a few years ago but has since become a 

 rarity (Saunders), and has even been taken in one instance at Lachine in 

 the \icinity of Montreal by Barnston (fide D'Urlian). It was also very 

 common one year at Brockj)ort, \. Y. (Bruce), but east of the Alleghanies 

 it occurs more sparingly. It is, however, said to be "usually common" in 

 eastern Maryland (Uhler), and "common" about Philadelphia (Blake) ; 

 in New Jersey it is reported from Schooley's Mt. and Redbank (Reakirt), 

 and in New York has been taken on Staten Island (Davis), Long Island 

 (Graef, Akhurst) and once in Newburgh (Edwards). 



It is now and then seen in New England and is occasionally common in 

 some of the warmer parts : thus Mr. Emery states that it is "sometimes 

 abundant" about Springfield, Mass. where Dr. Dimmock has taken it, and 

 Prof. S. I. Smith has found it not very uncommon about New Haven, 

 Conn. It has also been reported from Plantsville (Shepard, Mus. Yale 

 Coll.) and Blanford, Conn. (Hammer teste Faxon), Newport, R. I. (Hig- 

 ginson), Holyoke "rarely" (Dimmock), Boston (Scudder), Braintree 

 (Uhler, Mus. Comp. Zool.) and Belmont, Mass. (ilaynai-dj. 



Abundance and haunts. It is the common white buttei-fiy of Mis- 

 souri, wrote Mr. Riley in 1870, "sometimes flitting so thickly around the 

 truck gardens near large cities as to remind one at a distance of the falling 

 of snow. It often proves exceedingly injurious." But writing again five 

 years ago he says that Pieris rapae has now taken its place : indeed it has 



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