VI. The Entomopiitiioreae of the United States. 



By Poland Thaxter. 



XHE material upon which the following account is based was accumulated, for the 

 most pari, during the seasons of 1886-7, from several localities in New England and in 

 North Carolina, which were examined with such thoroughness as the limited time at my 

 disposal would allow. The New England material was chiefly collected at Kittery 

 Point, Maine, the southernmost point in the state, and in the vicinity of Boston; while 

 the remainder is the result of two weeks botanizing in the alpine and sub-alpine region 

 of Mt. Washington, N. II. The more southern forms represent three principal localities 

 in or near the western portion of North Carolina. Of these Cullowhee, 2400 ft. above 

 the sea, is the southernmost, having a flora of a distinctly southern type; while the two 

 others, Cranberry (.'5250 ft.) and Burbank (E. Tennessee, 3500 ft.), have a climate and 

 flora not unlike that of the southern New England states. The eastern section of the 

 United States is thus fairly well represented in so far as the localities which have been 

 st udied are concerned; yet it is scarcely necessary to remark that the forms obtained dur- 

 ing a few weeks' sojourn in each locality, in the course of general botanizing, can repre- 

 sent only in a fragmentary way the Entomophthoreae of this section of the country. The 

 forms occurring in the more remote regions of North America are, moreover, as yet al- 

 most wholly unknown ; and, although my observations have served to increase the num- 

 ber of American representatives from four previously recorded forms to the considerable 

 number hereafter enumerated, it cannot be supposed that the record is other than very 

 imperfect. The present paper is therefore complete only in so far as I have endeavored 

 to combine my own observations with those of previous students of the group in this 

 country and in Europe. 



For this purpose the literature of the subject has been consulted as far as has been 

 practicable, and a list of the papers that I have myself seen is appended to this memoir. 

 It should be imderstood, however, that this list is not intended as a complete record of 

 all that has been written upon the subject, and is merely given for convenience of refer- 

 ence in the text. 



The Russian publications of Sorokin were kindly procured for me in St. Petersburg 

 by Mr. ( harles Eliot, and for some knowledge of their contents I am indebted to Mr. Ivan 

 Panin. For the privilege of examining the remaining papers, not contained in the Uni- 

 versity libraries in Cambridge, together with other invaluable assistance, I am indebted 

 to Professor Farlow, in whose laboratory the microscopic work upon my paper has been 

 for the most part done. To Miss Ilapgood I owe certain extracts from the Polish of 



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