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into the Sol, ilium river below the "Greal Spirit spring." He easily took a number of 

 specimens withoul the aid of a net. It is very probable that one or two closely-allied 

 species also frequented this congenial saline haunt. 



While collecting Oicindela circwmpicta on the sail marsh at Fredonia this season, I 

 took a single specimen of Oicindela cuprascens, and the only one I have ever observed in 

 southeast Kansas. 



In the summer of 1883 Mr. A. W. Jones, of Salina, Kansas, gave me two specimens 

 of Rhy88emu8. Afterward I took a few specimens by sifting leaves and decaying vege- 

 tation. Mr. Ulke, to whom a specimen was submitted for determination, says: "This is 

 a veritable salt insect; a similar one (Rhyssemus scaber) was discovered by me on the 

 ocean shore in Maryland." This species lias not been described as yet, and is probably 

 peculiar to saline localities. 



A thorough investigation of the coleopterous inhabitants of the saline localities in 

 Kansas will undoubtedly reveal many species not known to the State, and intimately 

 connected with the saline and maritime forms of the southern and eastern coasts of the 

 Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. 



LISTS OF LEPIDOPTERA AND COLEOPTEKA COLLECTED IN NEW 

 MEXICO BY THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC EXPE- 

 DITIONS OF 1S83 AND 1884. 



BY PROF. F. II. SNOW, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. 



The following list? may be considered as supplementary to the lists published in vol. 

 VI 1 1 of these Transactions, and include only those species which were not embraced in 

 those lists. In July and August, 1883, our collections were made in the same locality as 

 ! vx '_' — tin Gallinas canon, near the Las Vegas Hot Springs. My assistants were 

 Messrs. L. L. Dyche, W. H. Brown, W. C. Stevens, and W. A. Snow. In August, 1884, 

 the same individuals composed the party, which was divided into two sections. The 

 first section made collections in the same locality as in the two preceding years, while 

 the second section visited the southwestern corner of New Mexico, and encamped about 

 twelve miles north of Silver City, on the Walnut creek, some three miles west of the 

 divide which separates the Atlantic and the Pacific slopes. Here were found a consider- 

 able number of forms previously known to occur only in Arizona and old Mexico. Ac- 

 knowledgments are due to Mr. W. J. Howard, of Silver City, for many favors; to Dr. 

 Geo. H. Horn, for determinations of Coleoptera; and to Messrs. Henry Edwards, B. 

 Neumoegen and J. B. Smith, for similar favors in the Lepidoptera. The letter appended 

 to each species gives the locality of collection — G. and W. indicating, respectively, 

 ( 1 alii nas canon and Walnut creek canon. 



PapUio philenor L. W 

 Limenilis Ursula Fab. 



Edw. \V. 

 Thecla halesus ( 'ram. W. 

 Thrh, [seta Edw. W. 

 X/yccena alee Edw. W. 



' marina Edw. \V. 

 Z/yccena neglectaEdw. W. 

 Amblyscirtes aenus Edw. W. 

 Pholisora, n. sp. W. 

 Thanaos paeuvius Lintn. W. 



LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pamphila lunus Edw. W. 



var. Arizonensis Eudamus moschus Edw. W. 

 Eudamus cellus Bd.-Lec. W. 

 Hi maris diffinis Boisd. W. 



sp. ( faded). W. 

 Sphinx elsa Strk. Silver City. 

 Ali/pia Grotei Bois. (Alypiodes flavin- 



guis Gr.) \V. and < ;. 

 ( 'opidryas Gloveri G. and K. W. 

 Hypoprepia cadaverosa Strk. W. 

 Orocota ostenta lly. Edw. W. 



