Kansas DNivERSin Science Bolletin. 



Vol. II, No. 4. 



NOVEMBER, 1903. 



Whole SERiia?. 

 Vol. XII, No. 4. 



LISTS OF COLEOPTERA AND LEPIDOPTERA 



COLLECTED IN HAMILTON, MORTON AND CLARK COUNTIES, KANSAS, 1902 AND 1903. 



BY P. H. SNOW. 



A combination of two papers, read at the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth annual tneetings of the- 

 Kansas Academy of Science, January 2, 1903, and November 27, 1903. 



'T^^HE following lists represent a portion of the entomological 

 work of the two scientific collecting expeditions to south- 

 western Kansas in charge of the writer in the years above 

 named. His associates in 1902 were his son, Frank L. Snow,. 

 Mr. E. S. Tucker, museum assistant in the University, and 

 Roy Moodie and Will Bailey, students. The duration of the 

 expedition was only three w^eeks, from May 30 to June 20. 

 Two camps were occupied — the first at Shanstrom's grove, 

 a mile and a half east of Coolidge, in Hamilton county, on the 

 banks of the Arkansas river ; the second at Point of Rocks, in 

 Morton county, on the Cimarron river, in the extreme south- 

 western corner of Kansas. The writer had not previously col- 

 lected insects in western Kansas farther south than Wallace 

 county nor earlier in the season than July. 



In 1903 the party consisted of Dr. C. F. Adams, Eugene 

 Smyth, and Roy Ranch, in addition to the director, and the 

 single camp was located at Englewood, in Clark county, about 

 a mile from Bullard creek, a tributary of the Cimarron river,, 

 and aljout seven miles from the latter stream. This camp was 

 occupied for seven weeks — from May 19 to July 1 — and a care- 

 ful survey was made of the entomological life of the surround- 

 ing country. As might have been expected, the character of 

 this fauna was more Texan than had previously been observed 

 in Kansas, our camp being only about two miles from the Okla- 

 homa line and not more than fifty miles from the northern line 



of Texas. 



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