ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. v. APRIL, 1894. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Fall Collecting in the Sierras of S. , Visitors from South America 113 



California 97 Editorial 115 



Taylor Larva and pupa of P. homerus 101 Economic Entomology Ti6 



1 "\\nsend Ants from Las Cruces 103 : Notes and News uS 



I'ernald Elementary Entomology 104 Entomological Literature 121 



Van Duzee Note on Scolopostethus.... 108 Entomological Section.... 125 



Jjyar Arkansas Lepidoptera 108 Cockerell A new Chrysis 125 



Skinner Tachyris ilaire no Coquillett New Diptera from Wash.... 125 



Aaron The Bold Robber Fly 110 ! Fox Fossorial Hymenoptera 126 



COLLECTING IN THE SIERRAS OF S. CALIFORNIA. 



Bv H. C. FALL, Pomona, Cala. 



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The chief glory of Southern California is its climate; but, un- 

 like the proverbial lion, the Summer temperature is sometimes 

 more pronounced than it is painted by the real-estate agents. 

 When the mercury has frisked about for several weeks between 

 90 and 115, the average man begins to feel the need of a read- 

 justment of surroundings, and circumstances permitting, hies 

 himself to the coast or to the mountains. 



My friend, Mr. F. D. Twogood, of Riverside, and myself con- 

 sidered the above sufficient excuse for contracting with the stage 

 driver to set us clown on the top of the San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains one morning in early July. 



Both Mr. Twogood and myself have a weakness for entomology, 

 he being partial to the Lepidoptera, while I lean rather toward 

 the Coleoptera. In the following remarks I shall confine myself 

 to noticing a few of the beetles taken during a month's stay on 

 the mountains. 



\Ve camped in a little valley at about 5000 feet elevation, 

 through which an ever lessening stream fringed with alder* and 

 willows flowed toward the Mojave Desert. The higher ground 

 was rather sparsely wooded with pine, fir. cedar and oak, the 

 conifers predominating. The little variety of vegitation indicated 



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