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arrive safely and prove an acceptable addition to your collec- 

 tion of Rhopalocera. While it is unique, your kindness to 

 me in the past justifies ni}' placing it in your charge, and I 

 have no doubt you will value it more highly than I do." I 

 never expected to get it and have thus been rewarded after all 

 these years. It is now in a fire-proof building, and is the 

 joy of all visiting naturalists who are privileged to gaze upon 

 it. Its beautiful yellow and black primaries and red seconda- 

 ries make it an object of great beauty, and I trust no ubiqui- 

 tous Aiithremis will keep it from being a joy forever. 



West Virginia Mountain Butterflies.— During August 1904, in 

 company with a party of collectors, I camped for a week on one of the 

 higher mountain ridges of the great forest region of central West Virginia. 

 The elevation of our camp was about thirty-five hundred feet above sea 

 level, and from there I made frequent trips to the Cranberry River which 

 flowed at the foot of the mountain twelve hundred feet below. This stream 

 has its origin in, and runs its course of more than fifty miles, through an 

 unbroken forest rarely penetrated by anyone except hunters and fisher- 

 men. At the points where I visited the river wild flowers were growing 

 upon the banks in abundance and swarms of butterflies were gathered 

 about the Swamp Thistle, {Cirsium inuticutn). Virgin's Bower {Clematis 

 virginiana,) Oswego Tea {Monarda didynia) and Joe-Pye-Weed (^a/a- 

 torimn purpureJivi) which were blooming in the greatest profusion. I 

 have never seen Papilio philenor so abundant elsewhere, and Argynnis 

 aphrodite and Argynnis cybele were present by hundreds. Here was a 

 rather unusual collection of northern and southern forms. On August 

 15th, four species of Argynnis were taken {atlafitis, aphrodite, cybele and 

 diana). One specimen only of atlantis was secured and two of diana. 

 All fresh males. 



Below is given a list of the species of butterflies collected during my 

 stay in the woods : 



Anosia plexippus. Basilarchia astyanax. 



Argynnis diana. Basilarchia disippus. 



Argynnis cybele. Feniseca tarquinius. 



Argynnis aphrodite. Chrysophanus hypophlaeas. 



Argynnis atlantis. Lycaena pseudargiolus neglecta. 



Brenthis bellona. Lycaena comyntas. 



Phyciodes tharos. Pieris protodice. 



Grapta comma. Pieris rapae. 



Grapta faunus. Colias philodice. 



Vanessa antiopa. Papilio ajax. 



Pyrameis atalanta. Papilio troilus. 



Pyrameis huntera. Papilio philenor. 



F. E. Brooks, Morgantown, Virginia. 



