42 
Psyche 
[February 
THE SEAL OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL 
CLUB 
By A. P. Morse, Wellesley, Mass. 
[The following note concerning the seal recently adopted by 
the Club has been supplied by A. P. Morse to whom we are in- 
debted, not only for the design, but also for its artistic execution 
in the final form which appears on the cover of the present issue 
of Psyche. Editor] 
The Cambridge Entomological Club has always recognized 
New England as its special and appropriate tho not exclusive 
field of activity. It is, therefore, fitting that a typically New 
England insect, the Semidea butterfly, whose habitat is the al- 
pine zone of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of 
New Hampshire, should be chosen for representation on its Club 
Seal. 
The insect is here shown perched characteristically on the dark 
gray, deeply weather-bitten rock-fragments of its mountain home, 
whose tints and texture its own so closely resemble, that when 
lying on its side with wings closed to escape the wind it becomes 
almost invisible. Beyond it at the right is suggested the sedgy 
slope of “Semidea plateau” (so christened by Scudder) with its 
rock-rivulets in whose crannies the butterfly often seeks shelter 
from the furious blasts which sweep over the summits even in 
midsummer. Beyond, from the depths of the Great Gulf, rise 
the slopes of the northern peaks, Mts. Jefferson, Adams, and 
Madison, with Mt. Washington suggested at the left. Over all 
float the summer clouds which often shroud the summit of 
Washingion for days at a time even when the other peaks 
free. 
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