42 Psyche [February 



THE SEAL OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL 



CLUB 



By A. P. Morse, Wellesley, Mass. 



[The following note concerning the seal recently adopted by 

 the Club has been supplied by A. P. Morse to whom we are in- 

 debted, not only for the design, but also for its artistic execution 

 in the final form which appears on the cover of the present issue 

 of Psyche. Editor] 



The Cambridge Entomological Club has always recognized 

 New England as its special and appropriate tho not exclusive 

 field of activity. It is, therefore, fitting that a typically New 

 England insect, the Semidea butterfly, whose habitat is the al- 

 pine zone of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of 

 New Hampshire, should be chosen for representation on its Club 

 Seal. 



The insect is here shown perched characteristically on the dark 

 gray, deeply weather-bitten rock-fragments of its mountain home, 

 whose tints and texture its own so closely resemble, that when 

 lying on its side with wings closed to escape the wind it becomes 

 almost invisible. Beyond it at the right is suggested the sedgy 

 slope of ''Semidea plateau" (so christened by Scudder) with its 

 rock-rivulets in whose crannies the butterfly often seeks shelter 

 from the furious blasts which sweep over the summits even in 

 midsummer. Beyond, from the depths of the Great Gulf, rise 

 the slopes of the northern peaks, Mts. Jefferson, Adams, and 

 Madison, with Mt. Washington suggested at the left. Over all 

 float the summer clouds which often shroud the summit of 

 Washingion for days at a time even when the other peaks are 

 free. 



