THE COLEOPTERA OF COLORADO. 2IQ 



The University of Kansas Expedition, in charge of Prof. 

 F. H. Snow, made large collections in 1876, chiefly in the 

 neighborhood of Colorado Springs, whence trips were made 

 to the surrounding plains and mountains. The South Park 

 was visited by way of the Ute Pass and a stay was made in 

 Engelmann's Canon on the Pike's Peak trail. The results 

 were published by Prof. Snow. 1 The omission of locality 

 from many of the records detracts much from the value. Two 

 years later, another party from the same University camped 

 near Dome Rock in the Platte Canon and took nearly a 

 hundred species. This collection was also reported upon by 

 Prof. Snow. 2 About this time a list was published by Dr. H. 

 Strecker, on a series of Coleoptera taken in the San Juan 

 region. 3 No definite localities are affixed to any of the names, 

 but from a perusal of the accompanying notes on Lepidoptera 

 it is evident that the expedition worked about Pagosa Springs 

 and along the small rivers flowing southward out of the San 

 Juan Continental Divide through Hinsdale, Archuleta and La 

 Plata counties into the Ute reservation. Some may be from 

 the adjacent regions of New Mexico. 



Dr. J. L. Leconte is the author of some important memoirs 

 on the Rocky Mountain fauna, though the material on which 

 they are based was obtained by others. In the first of these 

 papers 4 no localities are cited for most of the species other than 

 saying that they came from Southern Colorado and Northern 

 New Mexico, chiefly from the eastern foot hills of the Rocky 

 Mountains. The second and third papers appeared under 



1 List of Coleoptera collected in Colorado in June, July and August, 1S76, 

 by the Kansas University Scientific Expedition. Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science, Vol. V, 1877. 



2 List of Coleoptera collected near Dome Rock, Platte Canon, by the Kan- 

 sas University Scientific Expedition for 1878. Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science, Vol. VI, 1877- 1878. 



3 Coleoptera. Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1S7S. 



4 Report upon new species of Coleoptera collected by the expeditions for 

 Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Annual Report of the 

 Chief of Engineers for 1876, Appendix jj. 



