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Prof. W. B. Herms of the University of California, is writing a book on 

 Medical Entomology. 



The annual Field Day of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society was re- 

 cently held near San Mateo. 



In the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, I. 4, 1908, is an 

 interesting account of the trap-door spiders and tarantulas of California, by Mr. 

 C. P. Smith. There are four rather important papers referring directly to the 

 habits of California forms, which are not to be found in the appended bibliography. 

 I will give these titles here to render the bibliography more complete, and to bring 

 them to the notice of students. Three of them are in publications which are 

 seldom consulted by entomologists, which may account for their omission by 

 Mr. Smith : 

 Davidson. Dr. A. — An Enemy of the Trap-door Spider. Entomological News, 



XVI, 7, pp. 233-234, 1905. 

 Monks, Sarah P. — Trap-door Spiders. Publication of Historical Society of South- 

 ern California, I, pp. 28-36, 1886. 

 Monks, Sarah P. — Aestivation of Californian Mason Spiders, loc. cit. pp. 18-22, 



1887. 

 Rivers, J. J. — Description of the nest of the Californian Turret-Building Spider, 

 with some reference to allied species. Zoe, II, 4, pp. 318-320, 1892. 



