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The exact localities in the Black Mountains at which 
Beutenmiiller found his specimens are not known, but it 
is clear from a short note published in 1903 that his col- 
lecting was done in the southern half of the Black Moun- 
tain range. On subsequent trips he took many additional 
specimens of the species in that range. In late May, 1905, 
Nathan Banks made a trip to the same region, but most 
of his collecting was done along the North Fork of the 
Swannanoa River,^ a few miles north of the town of Black 
Mountain and just east of Craggy Knob, in the Craggy 
Mountain range. At this locality Banks collected a great 
many specimens of carolinensis , including the first females. 
The latter he mentioned in a paper published in 1911, 
stating that they had very short wings, were unable to fly, 
and hopped about very lively. Additional females were 
subsequently taken by Beutenmiiller in the Black Moun- 
tains. 
Other localities for the species were added by R. W. 
Leiby, who found it abundant near the top of Mt. Mitchell, 
the highest peak (6700') in the Black Mountains (July, 
1919), and who also collected it in the Craggy Mountains 
(June, 1920) about six miles from the Black Mountains 
and only three miles from Banks’ locality along the North 
Fork of the Swannanoa. It was also found by F. Sherman 
at Linville Falls (4000', late May and June, 1920) in the 
Blue Ridge Mountains, twenty miles northeast of the 
Black Mountain range. 
So far as I am aware, carolinensis was not collected again 
for about thirty years, until May, 1951, when Dr. Cheng, 
Dr. W. Nutting, Dr. K. Christiansen and I secured many 
specimens at Carolina Hemlock Camp on the edge of the 
Black Mountains, and brought back alive 150 males and 
seven females to Cambridge for study. By what is certainly 
a striking coincidence, at about this same time (May 17, 
1951), several specimens were collected by Dr. P. W. Fattig 
at Unicoi Gap in Georgia (near the town of Robertson). In 
May, 1952, Dr. Cheng and I again visited the Black Moun- 
^ Banks’ labels for this locality read, “Black Mt., North Fork Swan- 
nanoa’’. It should be noted that the town of Black Mountain is not 
in the Black Mountains, but is about itwenty miles south of that range. 
