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around which thistles and nettles grew abundantly. Graptas were 

 found around the nettles, and most of the other butterflies were found 

 on the thistles, especially on a species which blossomed late in August. 

 YV. J. Holland ("The Butterfly Book," 1898) says that Pyrameis 

 hunter a "ranges from Nova Scotia to Mexico east of the Sierras." W. 

 G. Wright ("Butterflies of the West Coast," 1905) states that "hunt era 

 flies over the whole of the United States," but he also says that "it is 

 very wary, and not easily caught." I found huntera on the last men- 

 tioned species of thistle and it was very easily caught. 



The following is a list of the Rhopalocera collected either in the 

 canyon or in the nearby fields : 



Anosia plexippus Linn; Argynnis coronis Behr; Brenthis epithore 

 Boisd; Melitaea chalcedon Dbl. & Hew; Phyciodes mylitta Edw; 

 P. pratensis Behr; Grapta satyrus Edw; G. satyrus var. marsyas Edw; 

 Vanessa calif ornica Boisd; Pyrameis atalanta Linn; P. huntera Fabr; 

 P. cardui Linn; P. caryae Hiibn; Junonia coenia Hiibn; Basilar chia 

 lorquini Boisd; Adelpha calif ornica Butl; Coenonympha California Dbl. 

 & Hew; Thecla grunus Boisd; Chrysophanus helloides Boisd; Lycacna 

 acmon Dbl. & Hew; Pieris napi, var. pallida Scudd; P. rapae Linn; 

 Anthocharis sara, var. flora Wright; Colias eurydice Boisd; C. keeway- 

 din Edw; Papilio rutulus Boisd; P. eurymedon Boisd; Pyrgus tessel- 

 lata; P. montivagus Reakirt. — Erval J. Newcomer, Palo Alto, Cal. 



The Kansas University Collection. — Stored in the topmost story 

 of the new Natural History Museum building, where it is almost 

 invariably overlooked by the casual visitor, is the entomological col- 

 lection of the University of Kansas. Here 200,000 specimens, repre- 

 senting more than 21,000 species, are carefully preserved and neatly 

 classified in the fifteen cabinets especially arranged for them, all col- 

 lected somewhere in the United States. 



Dr. F. H. Snow, the curator, has estimated the value of the collec- 

 tion at $50,000, but it probably could not be anywhere near replaced for 

 that sum. The beetle collection is especially fine. 



Valuable as the collection is, it has cost the State of Kansas hardly 

 a fraction of its real value, as it represents the work of Dr. Snow, who 

 started and has fostered the collection in all the forty years he has 

 been with the university. In early days, when the university was small 

 and had no money to spend on scientific expeditions of any kind, the 

 collection was started by Dr. Snow, who made the collecting trips 

 entirely at his own expense, roughing it just the same as a prospector 

 would do, but always bringing back several thousand specimens to add 

 to the university collection. In all he has made twenty-four such col- 

 lecting trips, but of late years the expenses have been paid by the 

 university. 



Dr. Snow is generaly accompanied on these expeditions by students 

 in the entomological department, who wish to get the practical experi- 



