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Extent of the latitudinal range of boreus 
Boreus notoperates now provides the southmost record ( 33 . 7 °N) 
of all known species of Boreus. Nevertheless, in eastern North 
America, B. nivoriundus and B. brumalis extend nearly as far south. 
Both range from Jackson, New Hampshire (Dohanian, 1915) and 
Ellsworth, Maine to Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains at 
4000 ft (Carpenter 1931, 1939; Cole and Gillespie 1950), namely 
from 44.8°N to a latitude perhaps as low as 35.4°N. In the far 
West B. calif ornicus Hine has a comparable range: from Kaslo, 
British Columbia (Carpenter 1931) to Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., 
California (new record), or from about 49.9°N to about 39.4°N. 
In the West, only B. notoperates has been found south of 39°N. 
The total latitudinal range of Boreus in North America is therefore 
from the vicinity of McCarthy and Kennicott (ca 6i. 5°N in Alaska, 
B. interrnedius Carpenter and B. gracilis Carpenter; Carpenter 1935, 
1936) to Mt. San Jacinto (33-7°N) in California, a total range 
of nearly 28° of latitude, or about 1900 miles. 
Were Lestage’s (1940, p. 16; 1941, p. 119) listing of Persia a 
valid record for the range of B. lokayi Klapalek, it would perhaps 
provide the most southern outpost of Boreus in Eurasia. It is an 
error evidently originating from Enderlein’s (1910) rendering of 
the type locality 5 , which had been cited simply as Sedmihrad by 
Klapalek (1901). Now “Sedmihrad” is Czech for Siebenbiirgen 
(Transylvania, now in Rumania), and Klapalek (1903) leaves no 
doubt for he says he has many specimens of B. lokayi that were col- 
lected by Lokay “in Buczecz in Siebenburgen”. 
Nevertheless it is an odd coincidence that Boreus has been found 
just across the northern border of Iran, providing the southmost rec- 
ord in Eurasia. It is that for B. vlasovi from Ashkhabad, Turk- 
men S. S. R. (ca 37*9°N) (Martynova 1954). The northmost 
record is that of B. westwoodi from the island of Kil’din (69.3°N), 
slightly NE of Murmansk, U.S.S.R. (Tarbinsky 1962). Although 
Boreus ranges nearly 8° farther to the north, it has a known lati- 
tudinal range in Eurasia not quite 4 0 greater (about 250 miles) 
6 “. . Boreus lokayi Klap. 1903 (Persien, Sedmihrad) . .” thus, Enderlein 
(1910, p. 394). Perhaps Enderlein refers to the Muntii Persani of the 
Sedmihrad that, near Brasov, run north from the southern Carpathians 
of which the Bucsecs (Buczecz, M. Bucegi) is a member. If so, it may 
represent a valid, otherwise unrecorded locality of capture, in addition to 
the type locality. The most recent record for B. lokayi appears to be that 
of Miller and Povolny (1950): High Tatra Mountains, about 16Q0 m, 
Czechoslovakia. 
