. Insects . rasitic upon mammals and birds have been found as far north as there is land;and the same seems to be the case with at least some of the lepidotera (bothbutterflies and moths) preferring certain plants. It may be assumed that atthe highest latitudes (say beyond latitude 80 degrees north) on both sides ofKennedy-Robeson channels these latter orders comprise the bulk of the insectfauna together with sawflies, bumblebees, and parasitic wasps, diptera, andminute hemiptera and beetles.^ 1 Professor E. M. Walker, of Toronto, claims that all the Melanopliis species pass thewinter in the e
. Insects . rasitic upon mammals and birds have been found as far north as there is land;and the same seems to be the case with at least some of the lepidotera (bothbutterflies and moths) preferring certain plants. It may be assumed that atthe highest latitudes (say beyond latitude 80 degrees north) on both sides ofKennedy-Robeson channels these latter orders comprise the bulk of the insectfauna together with sawflies, bumblebees, and parasitic wasps, diptera, andminute hemiptera and beetles.^ 1 Professor E. M. Walker, of Toronto, claims that all the Melanopliis species pass thewinter in the eg-R-stag-e. The northward distribution of grasshoppers on this continent istreated in his Canadian Arctic Expedition report, vol. Ill, Part J. 2 Beetle iPlatyderus) known from lat. 72° long 94° W. (Fox). •i See the insects secured by the Polaris expedition, and identified by A. S. Packard, Jr.,in The American Naturalist, Vol. XI, 1877, pp. 51-53. Insect Life on the Western Arctic Coast of America 41k. ^ 1^ ^ c V CTi ?^^Sij °jS^i ^ Q, 5i <U ^ ^ p^y-^L/o i/~-^^ UJ <u , i^O^i tygi ^ QQ ?^^ff S/ZUS Q ?^ / ^ %/ A .^ / ^ vViJ--J jTc^ (^^M org:
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