

PSYCHE. 



ORGAN OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 

 EDITED BY B. PICKMAN MANN. 



Vol. I.] Cambridge, Mass., November, 1874. [No. 7. 



Summer Butterflies at the White Mountains. 



I am indebted to Mr. Scudder for the privilege of examining 

 the advance sheets of his forthcoming paper on " The Distribu- 

 tion of the Insects in New Hampshire." His labors on the 

 mountain fauna have been so thorough that nearly all its char- 

 acteristic features have been recorded, at least so far as the 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera and Orthoptera are concerned. Still the 

 collections made during the excursion of the Cambridge Ento- 

 mological Club to Mt, Washington, from June 2d to July 11, 

 this year, show the occurrence of one new form, and furnish 

 data for the determination of the time of appearance and rela- 

 tive abundance of many others. The following is a list of the 

 butterflies taken at that time. 



(Eneis semidea Say. Nothing new was discovered in regard 

 to 'his species. The first specimens appeared about July 1st, 

 and in a few days it became very abundant. Specimens were 

 taken as low down as Sanborn's cam}), or about the middle of 

 Mr. Scudder's sub-alpine region. As semidea was the only 

 butterfly captured in numbers, which has its habitat on the 

 upper portion of the mountain, but little can be produced, as 

 far as the Diurnals are concerned, either in favor of, or against 

 the presence of two distinct faunal areas above the tree line ; 

 but in a list of the Noctuid;e to appear in a future number of 

 Psyche, I have some observations to offer on the distribution 

 of the moths, which bear on this point. 



Enodia eurydice Linn. Two specimens captured in low 

 swampy fields, — one below the first saw mill, on June 29, an- 

 other near the Glen Honse, on July 2. 



Phyciodes tharos Drury. Common in the Glen. 



Phyciodes harrisii Scudd. This species was found inhabiting 



