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are nob included in this sketch, the purpose of which indeed 

 is not to make a list of the species in this area but to treat 

 of the local distribution. Those found in dwellings only and 

 introduced species found only on cultivated crops have been 

 purposely omitted. Unless otherwise stated the locality is 

 understood as being in the vicinity of Albuquerque or the 

 Sandia Mts. 



BLUE SPRUCE AND MEADOWS (HUDSONIAN 



ZONE) 



Very little collecting was done here. The association was 

 visited several times on North Sandia Mountain, once on Old 

 Baldy of the Jemez, and on the very top of Mt. Taylor. The 

 following were collected here only. 



g Cicindela longilabris (an undescribed variety according 

 to Shelford.) Previously reported from Santa Pe and Beu- 

 lah only. 



Chrysomela auripennis, Say. 



An Andrena (Perhaps f ragariana, Gaen.) 



Irbisia brachycerus, Uhl. On Old Baldy of the Jemez 

 Mts. 



In addition the Painted Lady, Pyrameis cardui, was 

 more abundant here than anywhere else although it occurs 

 throughout our region and in fact "wherever the thistle 

 grows" (Holland). On the very top of Mt. Taylor was ob- 

 served a very curious collection of the lady-beetle, Hypo- 

 damia convergens. There were several thousand of them 

 massed in an area of only about a square foot. They did not 

 seem to be copulating. Under the stones under the mass of 

 beetles were other thousands of old faded elytra of the same 

 species, showing that the same phenomenon had occurred 

 here the previous year. A similar collection was seen on 

 one of the very topmost peaks of the Sandias in the fall of 

 1907. Were they seeking a place to hibernate? It was 

 August and September respectively and early fall on those 

 high peaks. 



DOUGLAS SPRUCE ASSOCIATION 



This is the most mesophytic Association we have and the 

 most dense forest. It does not make a continuous "zone" 

 anywhere with us but occurs as scattered patches in the 



