Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... varieties) 514 No. of new species 17 Total No. species Lepidoptera and Col-op tera 829 Total No. new species Lepidoptera and Coleop-tera 70 ON THE MOTHS COLLECTED BY PROF. SNOW IN NEW MEXICO. BY A. B. GROTE, PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. The collections made by Prof. Snow, in New Mexico, have turned out to be of great scientific interest. Not only have there been valuable and showy insects taken, such as Hyperchiria Zephyria, Gloveria Arizonentit, Halesidota Ambigua and Aspilates Viridirufaria, but a number of new species, interesting from their structure, have been captured, such as Frichothosia Parallela. Again, light has been thrown on the geographical distribution. We have not only Californiau and Eastern forms meeting as on common ground, but new representative species have occurred in these remote latitudes, such as Copimamestra Occidenta. The discovery in southern Arizona of Phcegariita Sevorta Grote, a species allied to the East Indian P. Transient, is very remarkable; and other just as interesting resemblances with Asiatic forms may be expected from this new field for entomological exploration. It must not be forgotten that my genus Helioehilus occurs only in India and the United States. So far as the moths are concerned, Prof. Snow has been the pioneer, and a worthier one c )uld not be found. The late Professor Agassiz, whose lectures were so charming from his learning, noble presence, and enthusiasm for natural history, held strongly for the distinctness of what are called "representative species." In the Moths, the near resemblance of some species, such as Copimamestra Oecidenta and Apatela Occidentalis, with their European analogues, I have accounted for by the theory that they are descendants from a single membe...