226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



pronounced, and there are usually two or three spots on the upper side 

 of the primaries, though these may vary from i to 4. On the inferiors 

 beneath there is a row of five white dots parallel to the outer edge of the 

 wing. 



Hab. — Mt. Katahdin, Maine, at an elevation of 4250 to 

 5000 ft. above the sea-level. 



Described from forty-three males and twenty females taken 

 by the writer at the above locality in the latter part of June of 

 this year. 



Owing to the accuracy of the figures on the plate a more 

 lengthy description seems unnecessar3^ In general appear- 

 ance C. katahdin somewhat resembles C. crambis Freyer. On 

 the upper side it is perhaps as near C. polixenes Fabricius as 

 any other butterfly of this genus, while on the underside the 

 wide band on the inferiors is much the same as in C. taygete 

 Hubner. In the plate the two upper and the two lower figures 

 represent the most constant forms of male and female, while 

 the central figures represent the extreme variations. 



An account of the trip which resulted in the discovery of 

 this new species would not be out of place at the present 

 time. The idea was first suggested by Mr. P. G. Bolster, vice- 

 president of the Harris Club, that Mt. Katahdin might be a 

 productive field for an Entomologist. This is a locality that 

 seems to have been neglected in the past, probably on account 

 of its inaccessibility. Mt. Katahdin rises out of the pine for- 

 ests of northern Maine to a height of over 5000 ft. Its vast 

 bulk is between seven and eight miles in length. I cannot do 

 better than to quote from Mr. Churchill's* article in Rhodora 

 for June. He says: " Mt. Katahdin is still surrounded by 

 an immense wilderness, traversed only by lakes and rivers and 

 by roads or trails, which in summer, at least, are too rough to 

 attract the tourist ; and Mr. Hamlin's observations are true 

 to-day that ' the mountain is so inaccessible that practically it 

 is remote even to New Englanders.' " It is over one hundred 



* Mr. Jos. R. Churchill was one of a party of five botanists who 

 ascended the mountain in July, 1900, the others being Dr. George G. 

 Kennedy, Merritt L. Fernald, Emile F. Williams and J. Franklin Collins, 

 all of Massachusetts. 



