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Lyctzna regia or sonorcnsis. On account of his son's health, 

 he returned to San Francisco. The next year, 1854, he 

 started on another excursion northward and visited Monte 

 Cristo in Sierra County, Yuba River, Amador County, Cala- 

 veras County, Mariposa County, south to Fresno County, and 

 north to Marin County and Sonoma County till 1856. In the 

 latter year, he started out for Manilla, Philippine Islands, but 

 came back again in 1861, when he remained one year. In 

 1862, he left for Cochin China and visited the following places 

 in turn, always collecting Lepidoptera : Hong Kong, China, 

 several islands of the Philippine group, Celebes, Aru Islands, 

 Ceram, Amboyna, Ternate, Gilolo and Java. In the latter place 

 he had an attack of fever which compelled him to remain in a 

 hospital for some time. When he recovered, he returned in 

 1870 to Paris. He travelled a little in Southern France and 

 vSpain collecting butterflies and moths. He had prepared to 

 return to the Philippines again but died only a few days before 

 he was to start in 1877. 



Mr. Lorquin was a medium sized man, and had a very strong 

 constitution which enabled him to travel everywhere in search 

 of specimens, always on foot. He was a great pedestrian, 

 being able to walk long distances without being fatigued. In 

 his travels in the East Indies, he lived with the natives by 

 whom he was much helped in his travels and collecting. 



Mr. Lorquin is an important character in California Entom- 

 ology, as almost all the Lepidoptera described from the Pacific 

 Coast by Boisduval were collected by this man. Dr. Boisdu- 

 val was Lorquin's family physician. 



In 1852, Dr. Herman Behr and Mr. Lorquin met in San 

 Francisco and from that time were close friends. Dr. Boisduvnl 

 always sent a specimen of each species when he described it 

 back to Lorquin and these co-types were turned over to Dr. 

 Behr and are now preserved in the museum of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. Lorquin also collected other insects, espe- 

 cially beetles, and one, a cerambycid, is called Calloidcs lorqiiiiiii. 



Mr. Lorquin never learned English well enough to converse 

 very intelligently in it; just before he set out for the Philippines 

 he told Dr. Behr that it was a shame that he was just on the 

 point of learning English and now he had to drop the project. 



