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origiD. So plentiful were they, that one could find several beads in almost 

 every little heap of sand, or rather fine gravel. 



Near by this locality a stone hatchet was found, with a handle of wood 

 already attached to it. This hatchet I was unable to see or secure, as it was 

 mislaid or lost in removing from a dug-out to a log house. I also learned 

 from several neighbors living near this locality, that the best and choicest 

 hammers and other implements had been, previous to our visit, gathered 

 up and sent away to relic-loving friends living in different localities East, 

 thus leaving only the greatest part of the cast-away ones for our hands to 

 gather up. 



The hammers were all made of metamorphic rocks, such as quartz, quartz- 

 ite, granite and scienite — rocks which are not found in any part of Kansas 

 that we are aware of. The smoothing stones may, or may not, have been 

 natives of our State. The tent-poles, those that I saw, were much worn upon 

 their tip-ends, by being dragged over long distances upon the rough ground. 



LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



■Collected near Idaho Springs, Colorado, by the Kansas University Sci- 

 entific Expedition for 1879. 



BY PKOF. F. H. SNOW, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. 



The following species of Lepidoptera were taken from July 26, to Sept. 

 8, 1879, by the writer, assisted by two scientific students of the Kansas Uni- 

 versity — Mr. Louis L. Dyche and Miss Annie E. Mozley. No little aid 

 was also rendered by my son Willie, ten years of age, whose quick eyes dis- 

 covered several species not observed by older members of the party. Our 

 camp was located in the Chicago creek canon, within one mile of L^aho 

 Springs, and at an estimated altitude of 7,600 feet above the sea. The 

 Nodiiidce were nearly all taken "at sugar," aud the list in this family is 

 chiefly remarkable for the large number (40) of species of the genus 

 Agrotis, many of which were new to science, and have been described by 

 Prof. A. R. Grote, chiefly in the "North American Entomologist." A very in- 

 teresting "find" was a single perfect specimen of Catoeala relicta, which is, 

 I think, the first capture of that "queenly" species in the Rocky-Mountain 

 region. One new Catoeala was also taken — C. pura Hulst. It is quite 

 likely, however, that this may prove to be C. Semirelicta Grote, as was first 

 suggested by Mr. Herman Strecker. This suggestion was made prior to the 

 description of the species by Mr. Hulst, from specimens of my own capture, 

 received by him from Mr. Strecker. The list includes a few species taken 

 during a brief expedition to Gray's Peak, the locality being especially men- 



