INSECTS OF CATALINA ISLAND. 



BY F. A. SEAVEY. 



During the last week in August of the present year I spent part 

 of the time in collecting insects on Catalina Island. As I know of 

 no list of insects from this island having ever been published, I 

 send one of my collection, incomplete as it is, trusting it might be 

 of some interest in furnishing a new locality for the insects named: 



Hymenoptera. 



Apis mellifica Linn. 

 Emphor sp.? 



Bombus Calif ornicus Smith. 

 Boinbus sp.? 



Pompilus ferrugineiis Say. 

 Pompilus tenebrosus Cresson. 

 Pompilus sp.? 

 Parapompilus sp.? 

 Augochlora pura Say. 

 Polistes aurifei' Saussure. 

 Ceratina acantha Provancher. 

 Paratiphia albilabris Spinola. 

 Philanthus Californiciis Cresson. 

 Vespa diabolica Saussure. 

 Bembex fasciata Fabricius. 

 Bembex nubilipennis Cresson. 

 Isodontia sp.? 

 Sphezrophthalma sp.? 

 Sphcerophthalma aureola Cresson. 

 Dipara sp.? 



Coleoptera. 



Balanimis obiusus Blanchard. 



Anihononms canus LeConte. 



Pristoscelis qicadricollis LeConte. From Hetero7neles arbjilifolia. 



Carpophilus pallipen7iis Say. 



Saprinus vifiosus LeConte. 



Platynus briinneomarginaius Mannerheim. 



Tropisternus Californicus LeConte. 



Hyperaspis lateralis Mulsant. From Artemisia Californica. 



