ANIMALS AND PLANTS DESCRIBED AS NEW 

 FROM COLORADO IN 1912, 1913, AND 1914 



By T. D. a. Cockerell 



The present list of new forms described from Colorado is in continu- 

 ation of that given in the University of Colorado Studies, Vol. IX, 

 May, 191 2, pp. 75-89. Every species described as new, the descrip- 

 tion based wholly or in part on Colorado specimens, is included. For 

 the year 1914, it has seemed best to include everything in the volumes 

 of periodicals bearing that date, although some of the last numbers 

 were not actually issued until early in 1915. The abbreviations 

 are the same as those of the former list; t. l. = type locality, while 

 extinct species are marked f. 



The size of the list is surprising, and shows the richness of Colorado 

 in new materials, as well as the activity of workers. In spite of the 

 conspicuous progress made, the work remaining to be done is very 

 great; in certain large groups of invertebrates, in particular, hardly 

 anything has been done on the Colorado fauna. In palaeontology, 

 the field is extremely rich and interesting. Innumerable species of 

 cryptogamic plants remain unrecorded, while even among the higher 

 plants critical work reveals much that is novel. 



The present record is concerned only with a single phase of bio- 

 logical activity; it is hardly necessary to remark that the description 

 of a new animal or plant is only the beginning of our knowledge of its 

 natural history. 



PLANTAE 

 Order AGARIC ALES 



Family AGARICACEAE 



Melanoleuca praemagna Murrill, N.Am. Flora, Vol. X, Pt. i (1914). T. 1. in Sas- 

 katchewan, but also found near Gunnison, Colo., under sage brush (E. Bartholomew). 



Order SPHAEROPSIDALES 



Calopactis (new genus) singularis Sydow, Ann. Myc, Vol. X (1912). On Quercus. 

 Pahner Lake (E. Bethel). 



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