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COLLECTING ON MT. WASHINGTON —Part II. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



Some years ago as I was going up the mountain by rail a young 

 man connected with the Summit House spoke to me and said he 

 hoped I could tell them up there the name of a red bug infesting 

 the house. On my arrival I was told that there had been much 

 complaint from guests because of the supposed presence of that 

 unpleasant little creature, Acanthia ledularia. But the "red 

 bug" proved to be that pretty little Chrysomelid, Galeriicella 

 cavicollis. It was there in great numbers, covering the window's, 

 lighting on the walls, crawling on the floors. This season I saw 

 very few of that species, but Galerucella decora seemed to have 

 taken its place. I took scores of these, and they were brought 

 to me daily by friends. The two ' ' lady bugs, ' ' Coccinella trifas- 

 ciata and C. transversoguttata, were also very common'. The 

 former, at least, breeds not far below the summit, for I found one 

 specimen just emerging from the pupa skin which hung on one 

 of the alpine sedges growing not two hundred feet below the top 

 of the mountain. The larvae can probably find plenty of food, 

 as there are aphides even on the summit. Mr. Mann, in " Psy- 

 che," vol. i, p. 183, speaks of plant-lice which "infested the 

 branches of birch trees," and " had produced an appearance like 

 a snow-storm around the Summit House." 



Flowers were scarce at the time of our first visit. The. gol- 

 den-rod was hardly in bloom, some of the earliest alpine flowers 

 had gone by, and the little mountain sandwart, Arenaria groeii- 

 landica, was for some reason less plentiful than usual. But on 

 the slope down into the alpine garden I found some golden-rod, 

 a little Clint onia, goldthread, the white potentilla and a few other 

 plants in bloom, and around these I took a few moths. Anarta 

 melanopa and A. schoenherri-were here, and also higher up among 

 the rocks, a little brown and white tortricid, Sciaphila moesch- 

 leriana fluttered about, and I captured several; also two or three 

 specimens of the geometrid, Eupithecia cretaceata. About these 

 same blossoms, or on leaves, I caught several of the Lampyridae, 

 Telephorus rotundicollis, Podabrus diadema, Lucidota atra, El- 

 lychnia corrusca, CcEnia dhnidiata and Pyropyga decipiens. Hy- 

 menoptera were scarce, though I saw three or four specimens of 

 Bombus pennsylvanica and a few Parasitica. Of these last Mr. 



