WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



KORDYCE (iRINNEI.L, JK. 

 PASAOKNA, CAMKt)RXIA 



•It is only needful tiiat one shall reail and think, and the work of others, 

 wliicli may have been published half a eentury ago, will 8UgKi"8t Homethin^ to 

 you whieh it never sug^jested to anyone before, and which may oeeupy your 

 attention for years. " — Francis E. Sipher. 



I'rof. Vernon L. Keilonj;, of StanfonI I'niversity. iitti-ndt-d llie Seeond 

 International Congress of Entomology, at Oxford, Knglaml, last August; he 

 contributed a paper on the distribution of the Mallophaga. and acted as 

 <'hairman of one of the sections. 



Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards luis licen ap[>ointcd Naturalist of the I'ark 

 Department of Los Angeles, in charge of the proposetl Zoologii-a! (iardens in 

 Grinitli Park. Entomology will be represented, as outlined in the first pub- 

 lication of the Los Angeles Zoological Society, issued in August. 



Dr. Aliu'rt J. Cook, State Horticultural Conunissioner, has been delivering 

 lectures in various parts of California, during the past summer, on the work 

 of the Commission. 



Messrs. Newcomb, llaskin and I'ooJidgc. of Lus Angeles, have ri-i-cntly 

 taken a considerable seri<'s of the very interesting buttertiy, Lycat lui nrurona, 

 on .Mt. Wilson, the first part of September, wliich was described in l!l(»2 by Dr. 

 Skiiuiir-, from one female. 



Mr. .1. R. llaskin. on his recent trip to Northern Arizona, took a nice 

 series of Thrcla halcsux. 



Mr. J. C. Hridwcll. Instructor in Entomology, I'niversity of California, 

 was in Southern California during the past summer, collecting especially in 

 the S.nn .lacinto Mountains, and Los Angeles County, and getting many inter- 

 esting Ilymcnopfcra. lie spoke to a meeting of the Entomological Club in 

 August on his San Jacinto trip. 



Mr. Wilhelm Schrader is constructing an elaborate and specially planned 

 building for his experimental work with the Lepidoptera, near IjOs Angeles. 



Mr. II. C. F'all, of Pasadena, spent his sunnner, as usual, in Uoston. study- 

 ing part of the time at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



In the Dctober number of Th(> Auk. an ornithological magazine, there is 

 an article by Francis II. Allen, cntitb-il " Remarks on the Case of Roo.sevelt vs. 

 Thayer. With a Few Independent Suggestions on the Concealing Coloration 

 (Question." The paper is of interest to all naturalists intercstcil in animal 

 bionomics. 



Reeherehes E.sperimentales sur Its Mccanismes du Mclanisme et I'Al- 

 binisme ches les Lepidopteres, par Dr. Arnold Pictet. Memoires do al Societe 



