348 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec. , '04 



The thirteenth regular quarterly meeting of the Pacific Coast 

 Entomological Society was held on August 2oth, 1904, at the 

 Cafe Odeon, 8 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, President 

 Fuchs in the chair. 



Sixteen members and six visitors were present. Four new 

 members were elected. 



Fordyce Grinnell by letter stated that he had spent from 

 May 3oth to June 2oth in the San Emiglio Mountains in 

 Western Kern County, and ascended Mt. Pinos over 9000 feet 

 altitude. In Sail Emiglio Canon he found a species of Lyacna 

 near speciosa ; around Mt. Pinos a distinct Satyrus, a Afelittea 

 near gabbii, and an Argynnis that he could not place, and a 

 peculiar Lyc&na of the icaroides group. On the Mojave Desert, 

 near Lancaster, he took Pholisora libya, which is only found in 

 the desert and hard to catch. 



President Fuchs delivered an annual address and reported a 

 " Collecting Trip " to Tulare County, California. 



Mr. Frances X. Williams reported a collecting trip to Santa 

 Cruz County, in June 2oth-July 25th. He stated that the 

 Hepialidse have the habit of flying about for about 40 minutes 

 up to 8.20 o'clock P. M. The males fly zigzag in sheltered 

 spots, while the females are larger and darker and fly zigzag 

 but continuously and scatter their eggs upon the ground. 



Dr. F. E. Blaisdell reported a larva of Omus scqnoiarum 

 that was collected in Calaveras County, 1903, and that it had 

 pupated. As soon as it was placed in a jar of earth it made a 

 burrow and was fed on flies from June 25th to August ist, 

 when it closed its burrow and in a cell laid upon its back for 

 six months, and at the end of January, 1904, it again became 

 active and was fed on flies. About June ist, 1904, it again 

 closed its burrow and disappeared, but about July i5th it had 

 pupated. 



He also reported the finding of Quedius fulgidus, var. 

 erythrogaster, Fuchsina occulta, Gyrohypnus sp. , and the remains 

 of Aphodius cribricollis in the wood-rats' nest in the Alhambra 

 Valley, Contra Costa County. 



Dr. E. C. Van Dyke in considering the species of Amphicoma, 

 said that probably there was dichromatism in the species of the 



