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bis experimental station near Los Angeles. A long paper on 

 experiments with Junoiiia cositia is in the July Bulletin of the 

 Southern California Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Mctor L. Clemence, of Pasadena, on a trip to Mt. Wilson 

 in early August, collected a series of the interesting Lyccena 

 neuroiia Skinner, of which something further will be said con- 

 cerning the dimorphism or non-dimorphism. 



Dr. Frank C. Clark, of Los Angeles, spent his vacation in the 

 San Bernardino mountains, and collected a great quantity of 

 insects of all orders, mostly Hymenoptera ; including some inter- 

 esting Mutillidaj and stylopized wasps. 



In the July Sierra Club Bulletin, Prof. V. L. Kellogg, of Stan- 

 ford University, has an interesting illustrated article on Butter- 

 flies of the Mountain Summits. 



"An insect much resembling the June bug, and found in great 

 quantities in the high plains about Quito, the capital of Ecuador, 

 is toasted and eaten as a delicacy by the natives of that country. 

 They are sold in the streets in the same manner as are chestnuts 

 in the cities of this country. The roasted bugs taste very much 

 like toasted bread." — The San Francisco Argonaut, April 26, 

 ]913. 



Prof. C. F. Baker, former editor of the Jourual, now of the 

 University of the Philippines, has an interesting article in the 

 Philippine Journal of Science, April, 1913, entitled: "A Study 

 of Caprification in Fie us Nofa." He gives, first, an account of 

 the marvelous symlnotic relations of the fig-insects and the figs, 

 and their guests and parasites. He describes a new Blastophaga 

 nota, a new genus Agaonella larvalis n. sp., and five other new 

 si)ecies in other genera, and a synopsis. The paper is illustrated 

 by drawings of different structures ; and is a valuable addition to 

 the extensive literature of the subject. 



