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LISTS OF LEPIDOPTERA AND COLEOPTERA, 



COLTiECTED IN NeW MeSICO BY THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC EXPEDI- 

 TIONS OF 1881 AND 1882. 



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



The following lists represent the entomological portion of the work of our 

 expeditions to New Mexico for the month of August, 1881, and the two 

 months of July and August, 1882. The party for 1881 consisted of Prof. 

 H S, S. Smith, the writer, his twelve-year-old son Willie, and Mr. L. L. 

 Dyche, his capable assistant in natural history. The locality selected for ex- 

 ploration was in the southern portion of the Territory, in the beautiful Water 

 Canon, some twenty-five miles west from Socorro. But the work of the 

 month was seriously crippled by a hostile incursion of the murderous 

 Apaches, who compelled us, after only five days of successful collecting, to 

 abandon the locality, and select a safer but less desirable field for investiga- 

 tion. A single day was spent at Darning, and the rest of the month at So- 

 corro and Pecos. Near the latter place a week was profitably devoted to 

 archaeological explorations. 



In 1882 the expedition was more successful. The party consisted of the 

 writer and his family, together with Mr. L. L. Dyche, Miss Mary Dyche, and 

 Mr. W. W. Russ, students of the University. Our camp was fixed in the 

 Gallinas Canon, near the Las Vegas Hot Springs, and a more favorable lo- 

 cality could hardly have been selected. In his report upon the Coleoptera 

 collected in Santa Fe Canon in 1880, published in the last volume of these 

 Transactions, the writer noted the conspicuous scarcity in that locality of cer- 

 tain families of Coleoptera, and of all the Lepidoptera, as probably due to the 

 destruction of their food-plants by the sheep and goats. But in the Gallinas 

 Canon, not more than thirty miles distant, we found a sort of naturalist's 

 paradise. The occupancy of the mouth of the canon by the hotels and bath- 

 ing-houses of that famous sanitarium, has proved an effectual barrier against 

 the entrance of troublesome ruminants, and the entomologist and botanist is 

 able to obtain the choicest of his favorite objects of study in delightful va- 

 riety and perfection. From this camping-place as a center of observation, 

 at an elevation of about 7,000 feet above the sea, we collected in nine weeks 

 277 species of Lepidoptera and 417 species of Coleoptera. Adding the ma- 

 terial obtained in southern New Mexico in the preceding year, we have a 

 total of 315 species of Lepidoptera and 514 species of Coleoptera. Among 

 these forms, seventeen species of Coleoptera and fifty-three species of Lepi- 

 doptera — nearly one-tenth of the entire number — are new to science. A 

 portion of the new Lepidoptera are described in a separate article in these 



