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2S0 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



To minis pint and Xyloterus bivittahis. In Hemiptera I found sev- 

 eral rare and interesting species, among them a tiny Salda at the 

 edges of pools, on the summit, which is perhaps new. 



In Lepidoptera I found less than usual, the weather not being 

 favorable. Phisia vaccinii and two species of Anaria were, as 

 usual, flying over the rocks and about blossoms. The little 

 Sciaphila moeschleriana was also abundant around golden-rod 

 near the ' ' cow pasture' ' and in the alpine garden. Graptaf annus, 

 G. gracilis and Limenitis arthemis were flying along the carriage- 

 road up to the very summit. Argynnis montiyius was not seen 

 during my first visit, but in a later trip to the mountain in August 

 I took several. It was in this later visit that I captured, on 

 golden-rod in the alpine garden, a very remarkable and hand- 

 some Hepialus. It resembles, in marking and coloration, the 

 European H. ganiia or some of its varieties, but is, I think, much 

 larger than any of these. I am still absent from my own collection 

 and have no access to others, and have consequently been unable 

 to make the necessary examination and comparison. None of 

 this group have been recorded from the White Mountains. 



Two years ago I found a singular Bombycid larva on the sum- 

 mit and referred ^o it in one of my papers. This season I found 

 two or three more of the same kind and sent one to Mr. Dyar. 

 He thinks it the larva of Dasychira rossii, and will doubtless re- 

 port the results of his examination. 



One of the most noticeable things in insect life on Mt. Wash- 

 ington this season was the abundance and destructiveness of one 

 of the oil-beetles, Epicaiita cinerea. Last Summer I found one 

 specimen on the summit; this year they were there in countless 

 numbers devouring plants of all species. 



On the whole I am satisfied with the results of my season's 

 collecting on the mountain. I spent twenty-three days in all on 

 the summit, and but a very small proportion of these were really 

 fa\ orable as to weather. Yet I have added over three hundred 

 species to my former lists, and among these are at least fifteen or 

 twenty new to science. I shall soon print their names in another 

 additional list. 



Out of eighteen papers presented at the section of Zoology of the 

 American Association, at Springfield, eight were on entomological sub- 

 jects. 



