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quadrimaculatus, Saperda imitans. Among- other orders Hy- 

 menoptera and Odonata were well represented. 



Returning East, Mr. Engelhardt visited the White Mountains 

 in N. H., where, on top of Mount Washington, he found 

 aquatic insects very abundant in numerous small pools. 



GEO. P. ENGELHARDT, Rec. Secretary. 



The 22nd regular quarterly meeting of the Pacific Coast En- 

 tomological Society was held on November 25th, 1906, at the 

 residence of Miss Julia D. E. Wright in Palo Alto. President 

 Fuchs in the chair. 



Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg gave a talk on the life history of 

 the Blepharoceridae. 



Mr. J. C. Bradley gave a talk on the Entomological Society of 

 America, urging the entomologists of the Pacific Coast to join 

 the society. 



Mr. Coolidge spoke on the distribution of Colias ale.vandra 

 and edzvardsii, the former being found in Eastern Oregon, the 

 latter in Eastern Cascade Mountains, both occurring in the 

 Coeur d'Alene Mountains. 



Dr. Van Dyke exhibited a new Hetaerius from California. 

 He made a few remarks upon the species of Necrophorus found 

 in the vicinity of San Francisco.. He spoke about the two com- 

 mon black ones : guttula and pustulatus var. nigritus; also of 

 three maculate forms, guttula var. hecate, vespilloides and 

 marginata, which he had found here. H. pustulates var. 

 melsheimeri was credited to the State but he had never seen 

 any specimens from it and doubted whether it would be found 

 west of the Sierras. The various species of Hetaerius were 

 spoken of, the fact that though messmates with ants, very little 

 was known about their true habits, a field of investigation which 

 was in great need of being exploited. Their distribution was 

 discussed and the opinion ventured that our Coast belt would no 

 doubt yield many new species of the same as well as other small 

 and markedly specialized species, when it was thoroughly work- 

 ed over. The main reason given for this belief was that our 

 coast belt was the largest belt of territory in this count rv that 

 had gained many species from the North, that had been little 



