PSYCHE. 



SOME OLD CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HARRIS. SAY, AND 



PICKERING.— VI. 



[PICKERING TO SAY.] 



Salem, Sept. 9th, 1S25. 



Dear Sir, 



I take the present opportunity to for- 

 ward you a few specimens of insects. 

 The brown butterfly inhabits the bald 

 summits of the White mountains of 

 New Hampshire and appeared to be 

 confined to those regions. Mr. Nuttall 

 described to me a year ago an insect 

 from the same locality probably identi- 

 cal with this, but unfortunately his 

 specimens were lost. The white Pi- 

 eris occurred not unfrequently about 

 the base of the mountains, together, 

 with a fine species of Apatura? with a 

 broad white band across the middle of 

 each wing, of which I was unable to 

 procure more than a single specimen. 

 The small Lycaena was taken in a bog 

 meadow in this vicinity. Your Cicin- 

 dela formosa I have frequently met with 

 in this vicinity, and particularly, it oc- 

 curred in great numbers, for two suc- 

 cessive years, at a sandy spot near 

 Cambridge in this state : the other Ci- 

 cindela, of which I have sent you the 

 two extremes in the variation of the 

 markings, is distinguishable at first 

 sight from C. sexguttata by the con- 

 vexity of the elytra and also by the 



comparative dullness of the colors 

 when alive, occurred abundantly at the 

 same locality and I have met with it 

 no where else. The Pollyxenus I met 

 with two or three times this last spring 

 under the bark of the Walnut; on the 

 side of the White mountains under the 

 bark of a dead pine I took a single 

 specimen of the genus Craspedosoma 

 which I have by me now though it is 

 very much injured. The black Lep- 

 tura is also from the sides of the White 

 mountains. The Tipula is found in 

 ditches in bog meadows in this vicinity 

 and makes a curious appearance when 

 flying, the six legs are then extended 

 and become very conspicuous, slowlv 

 moving along, while the means by 

 which the motion is produced ai"e not 

 seen. I have filled up the box with 

 duplicates from my collection (which 

 unfortunately are rather scarce particu- 

 larly of the more uncommon species) of 

 the genera Leucopsis, Plea Leach, 

 Xvlota?, Syrphus, Nemotelus, Sto- 

 moxys, Hydrometra, Curculio, Lu- 

 perus, Clytus, Cychrus, &c ; if among 

 these you find anything interesting I 

 shall be able to give you further infor- 

 mation. 



Yours, with respect, 



Charles Pickering. 





