June, '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 1Q9 



Anglesea, N. J., no specimens of Culex sollicitans had been 

 encountered. On April nth larvae of Culex cantans had been 

 found but no sollicitans. 



WILLIAM J. Fox, 



The third regular quarterly meeting of the California Ento- 

 mological Club was held on the evening of February 22, 1902, 

 at the residence of Mr. Beverly Letcher, 2701 L/aguna Street, 

 San Francisco. President Fuchs in the chair. 



A paper by Dr. Edw. C. Van Dyke on " The Faunal Areas 

 in California as seen by a Field Coleopterist " was then read. 



The Doctor divided the State Faunal Areas into two divi- 

 sions the Boreal and the Sonoran, as indicative of their mode 

 of origin. The Boreal was subdivided into the Maritime and 

 the Sierran ; the Sonoran into Southern California, Great Ba- 

 sin and the Sonoran proper. 



He named the following species of Coleoptera as most typical 

 of the several faunas : Of the Maritime, among the Carabidae, 

 Pemphus angusticollis with its races ; Brennus crisfafns and its 

 more southern relative retiadatus, Elaphrns pallipcs, I.orieem 

 lo-punctata, Leistus ferrnginosns, Promccognathus hei'isshntts, 

 Bembidiutn crasuin, B. g-foveolatum, B. spectabile, Pterostie/nis 

 crcnicollis, Pt. ainet/iysfim/s, Pt. longicollis, and Pt. rieiin/s 

 several species of Aviara, Platynns, Tachyeellus nigrinns; Hali- 

 plidcc, Brvcliins Jwrnii ; Dj'tiscidae, Dytiscus marginalis; several 

 Silphides ; Byrrhidae, Simplocaria nitida, two species of Pedilo- 

 p/ionts ; L/ucauidae, Ccruchns striatus ; Scarabaeidae, Aplwdiiis 

 ursinus ; Cerambycidae, Opsimns ^.-liiicatiis, Lcptalia niacilcnta, 

 etc.; more southern species which, at one time, belonged to 

 this fauna ; Bcmbidium laficcps, Trcchns barbarce, Ptcrostichus 

 n-ni'ti'i(sii, Pt. Isabella- and Pt. congcstns. 



Of the Sierran, the genus Owns, Cidndela perwridis, C.gra- 

 minca, most Brennus, Pterostiehus atcr, species of Benibidinni, 

 JVdh'Hits, llarf)alns, Nebria, 2\oti\>p/iilns, Tree/ins c/ia/yl>eus, 

 Pafrobus scptcntrionis, Pleoeoma, lloplia, Dichelonyclia , conifer- 

 ous wood-boring beetles in part, as also many of the Dy tiscidae, 

 Mycetophagidae, Endomychidae and Coccinellidae. 



Of the Sonoran, i-'.d rotes ren/rieosns, Trioroplius l<rris. Cryp- 



