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IMBI.KXIHAIMIY OF TKTTIX MOKSKI, 



Sciukler, Can. Xat. vii. 1>S8 ; S(m<l(ler, Host. .loiini. Nat. 

 Hist, vii., 474; Sciidder, (^at. Orthopt., X. Am., p. 4-49; 

 Beuteuranller, Des. Cat. OrtLopt., X. V., 300 ; Blatchley, 

 Can. Eat., XXYJ, 220 ; Blatchley List Ortliopt. lud. in Piw. 

 Iiul. Hort. Soc, 22 ; FernaUl, Orthopt. , Xew Englaiifl, 46, tig.; 

 Blatchley, Can. Ent., XXX, 64; Sciidder, Alpine Orthopt., 

 6 ; Brunner List, Neb. Orthopt., 2iS ; Bolivar Kssai, Acrid, 

 Iribu Tettigidie, 01 ; Hancock Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXIIl, 

 2;i7 fig.; Lugger, Orthopt., Minn., 107 tig.; Packard Bept. 

 r. S Ent. C^omm. Appen. TI. [2S] ; Morse, I'syclie, Oct., '04, 

 154 ; Morse, Psyche, Nov., '04, ()7 ; Morse, Psyche, Mar., '04, 

 .">4; McNeil, Psyche, List, Orthopt., ill., '01, 77 ; Riley, Lst 

 Bept, IT. S. Ent. (^omm., 77, 246 fig.; Riley, Nat. Hist. Arth- 

 rop., Orthopt., H. 102 fig.; Smith, Econ. Ent., '06, 0] fig.- 

 Thomas, Syn. Acrid, N. Am. A", 78, 1S2 ; Walker, Can., Ent., 

 NXX, 123. 



THE CATOCALAE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 



By I'lJoF. Elj.ison A. S^fYTii, .Ju, 



Tlie interesting commingling of Northern and subtropical 

 tbrms in the T>epidoptera of the Alleghauian fauna is well 

 illustrated in the Catocdhe of this county. The following notes 

 apply to the immediate ueighborhoo<l of Blacksburg, Mont- 

 gomery County, Virginia, among the Alleghanies and at an 

 elvation of about 2,300 feet. 



As far as my obseryations extend, based upon my own <*oI- 

 h'cting for a number of years, there are twenty-seven good 

 species of Cafocala', or, counting varietal forms, nearly forty 

 species and varieties found here. More strictly Northern are 

 such species as C. parta, concumhem, hahiliM, paleogama, etc., 

 while the following Southern forms occur: C. rhluata (in. 

 (iiiwstosa Halst.j, (^rsperafa (In,, Jachri/mosa and mppho. The 

 past summer was the first occasion of my finding vidnata here. 

 This species was frequent, though not abundant ; and it Mas 

 with intense surprise that I eagerly bottled Uvo specimens of 

 C. Htipphn, which T had heretofore seen only once alive, in lower 

 South Carolina. Hom- these tAvo species took me back to my 

 old collecting grounds, in th^ swamps near Charleston, S. C, 



