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A Summer Trip to Southern California. 

 By Geo, D. Hulst. 



It was my good fortune to be able to get away from professional 



duties during the last Summer. Starting from home I made my way 

 without any but necessary stops till 1 reached Los Angeles, Calif, My 

 entomological captures on the way were but few. A Syneda,, which 

 boarded the train in Arizona. A P/iycid, new to Science, which J found 

 on a R. R. lamp while we were stopping for breakfast at the Needles, but 

 carried in my hat for a day. it lost its beauty. At the Needles a legum- 

 inous shrub was very attractive to butterflies, and on the Mohave L'eserl 

 Lycana exilis was very plentiful, flying in the hottest sunshine when the 

 Thermometer ranged from 1 10 to 120 degrees in the shade. 



My first chance to do any collecting was a single day (June 22,) at 

 San Diego. Among other captures I took Lyca.no. Battoides, Behr., /.. 

 Marina, Reak., Chrysophanus Hermes, Edw., (asingle specimen), Lemonias 

 Virgulti, Edw., L. auslralis, Edw., Chlorosea fasciolaria, Guen., and 

 Thamnonoma Guenearia, Pack. 



The next opportunity I had was at San Bernardino, where I enjoyed 

 the hospitality of Mr. VV. G. Wright, who in every department of Science, 

 but notably in Botany and Entomology has done faithful work. Mr. 

 Wright used his horse and wagon, his purse, and himself, to make my 

 visit pleasant, ami took any amount of trouble to show me some rarities 

 "in the flesh.'' First about San Bernardino we collected nearly lull 

 grown caterpillars of Hemileuca Nevadttais, Stretch. They were very 

 common, feeding on Cottonwood and Willow. Then in a swampy place, 

 where knee deep in mud ami water 1 pursued them, he showed me the 

 haunt of Scepsis Wrighiii. The swamps of California are very different 

 from Swamps in the East. There are no Ferns, and there is none of the 

 prolific development of Geomelridce and Microlepidofhra. However, 1 

 managed to get a Crambus or two, and die rare and beautiful Orobena 

 OCtonalis, /ell., hitherto taken, so far as I know, in Texas only. 



Next, 1 was taken into the mountains to the Arrow Head Hot Springs 

 Hotel. It was curious to note as we advanced how marked was the 

 difference of the Lepidoptera of the plain, the foot hills, ami the moun- 

 tains. Colias Eurytheme held the plain ; coming to a certain point Mr. 

 Wright said : "Now you will see no more Eurytheme but Barbara takes 

 its place," and so it was. And here too C. Eurydice, the most beautiful 

 of our butterflies on the wing, and perhaps also when spread, was seen. 

 Just above the beginning of mountain rise, Melitcea Wrightii was taken. 

 having a narrow range of a few hundred feet of elevation. Up at the 

 Entomolocjica Americana. Vol. m. 29 Januaot 1888. 



