Vol. XXV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3OI 



to the conclusion that the best season for collecting in this 

 country is in the fall of the year just after the fall-blooming 

 shrubs have begun to blossom. Late in September and through 

 October there is a season of fall flowers. This season varies 

 slightly from year to year and, as it is rather short, one must 

 be on hand at just the right time in order to get the best results. 

 There is one shrub in particular, Bigelovla graveolens Gray,* 

 which has proven a sure guide to successful collecting. It 

 occurs in many places in the sandy washes along the foothills, 

 and when its bulk of fine evergreen foliage becomes hidden 

 by dense masses of small, bright yellow, strong smelling flow- 

 ers, one is sure of making a good catch. The rank smell of 

 this flower seems to have a wonderful attraction for butterflies 

 and other insects and in certain spots one can find halesiis, 

 strigosa, bachmanni, and many others, so busily engaged that 

 one can approach without caution and net them at will. 



Most of my Arizona collecting has been done in and around 

 the Goldroad district. Goldroad is a mining camp between 

 Kingman and the Colorado River on the west slope of the 

 Black Mountains, or River Range. The road from Kingman 

 crosses the Sacramento Valley and up through a pass over the 

 range, then down a steep winding road into Goldroad. Little 

 Meadows, a water station halfway up the pass, and Silver 

 Spring, below Goldroad, are good collecting grounds in the 

 proper season, as there is rather more vegetation than usual in 

 these spots. 



Following is a list of specimens taken during the past few 

 seasons. Probably a more exhaustive search than I have been 

 able to make would result in some further interesting captures. 



A. strigosa, E. claudia, M. neiimoegeni, P. gratensis, Synchloe 

 californica Wright, P. cardui, L. bachmanni, L. mormo, L. 

 palmeri, C. australis, T. halesiis, T. mclinns, T. Icda, L. acmon, 

 L. isola, L. myrina, L. e.rilis, P. protodicc, N . iole, E. reakirti, 

 C. enbule, M. caesonia, C. enrythemc, T. nicippc, P. astcrias, 

 P. erecetorum, P. tessellata, and three Hesperids not identified. 



* Identified by Dr. Anstruther Davidson, Los Angeles, Cal. 



