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slight, although his type was secured near the Rocky Mountains. M. obsoletus 

 Say, three individuals, flew into our tent at Cohas brook, in July, 1899, but the 

 larvse have not been found in this vicinity and the species is not so abundant as 

 is abdominalis. 



The earth is comparatively small, and whatever transpires upon its surface can 

 be of but slight concern to the universe. Man's egotism not infrequently distorts 

 the perspective through which he contemplates the relations of things. It is un- 

 'doubtedly true, although it is difficult to comprehend the truth, that the determin- 

 ation on this continent of the extent of the great provinces of fauna and flora, 

 involving as it must unceasing changes for ages in multitudinous forms of life, is 

 of more importance in the history of the earth's development than all that has 

 been accomplished by the red man in the wanderings of ten thousand years, or by 

 the white man in three centuries of occupation. 



