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TORTRICIDAE. 

 Oletlireutes intermistana Clem. 



Three specimens; kindly identified by Mr. A. Busck of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 

 Tortrix inocschleriana Wocke. 



Two specimens. 

 Cnephasia oss.eana Scop. 



Three specimens; identified by Mr. A. Busck. 



TiNElDAE. 



Motiopis bifla'i'iiiiaculclla Clem. 

 Four specimens. 



CRAGIN'S COLLECTION OF KANSAS MYRTAPODA. 



BY HORACE GUNTHORP, 

 University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 

 The first Myriapod record for the State of Kansas is that of Wood 

 (8, pg. 11)', who reported the single form Scolopciuira polymorpha from Fort 

 Riley, Kansas, in 1861. This constituted the sole record for the state until 1885, 

 when Meinert (7, pg. 196) reported Scolopendra hcros from Riley, Kans. As 

 he considered 5. polyuwrpha a synonym of S . hcros, forms now known to be dis- 

 tinct, he was undoubtedly dealing with the former, as there is no authentic 

 record of S. heros occurring as far north in Kansas as Fort Riley, so he cannot 

 be said to have added a new name to the state list. The same year W. F. 

 Cragin (5) published a short list of Kansas Myriapoda in which he enumerated 

 twelve forms covering some nine species in seven genera. In 1893, BoUman 

 (2, pg. 183) placed Parajidus vcnustus on the Kansas list. 



No new forms were added until 1*>13, when the present writer published a 

 more extended catalogue, covering more extensive collecting over the state. 

 This latest list included a total of fourteen species of Diplopoda and fifteen of 

 Chilopoda. 



At the time of publishing this last mentioned paper, an effort was made 

 to examine the collection evidently made by Professor Cragin, with the result 

 therein recorded (6, pg. 168) which was as follows: "Through the kindness 

 of Prof. C. H. Edmundson, of Washburn College, I have examined two indi- 

 viduals of this species {Scolopendra hcros) collected by Cragin in Barber 

 County. The larger one measures 140 m. These two specimens are all that re- 

 main of Prof. Cragin's Myiapoda collection, as the remainder were destroyed by 

 fire." This fire occurred in 1908. 



During the past year, while the writer was rearranging the specimens in 

 the museum at Washburn College, a perforated board holding some fifty bottles 

 of specimens came to light, some of which, upon examination, proved to be 

 part of the Myriapoda collected by Cragin. This led to a systematic search 

 of the laboratories and store rooms, with the result that a total of twenty 

 bottles plus one dried, pinned specimen were found. With the exception of the 

 latter, there is little doubt but that they are all from one original collection, in 



^Numbers in parenthesis refer to bibliography at end. 



