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A Summer Trip to Southern California. 

 By Geo. D. HuLsr. 



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

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

 without any but necessary stops till I reached I^os Angeles, Calif My 

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

 l)oarded the train in Arizona. A P/iya'd, new to Science, which I found 

 im a R. R. lamp u hile we were stopping for breakfast at the Needles, but 

 carried in my hat f )r a da\-, it lost its beauty. At the Needles a legum- 

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

 Lycuna exiJis was very plentiful, fiying 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 cajnurcs I took L\cana Battoides, Behr. , L. 

 Marina, Reak., Chrysophanus Hermes, Edw., (a single specimen), Lemonias 

 Virgulli, Edw., L. ans/ralis, Edw., Chlorosea fasciolaria, Guen,, and 

 Thainno7ioma Guenearia , Pack 



The next opportunity I had was at San Bernardino, whei'e 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, and took any amount of trouble to show me some rarities 

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

 grown caterpillars of H^miltuca Nevadtnds, Stretch. The}" were ver}- 

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

 where knee deep in mud and water I pursued them, he showed me the 

 haunt of ^V^/^iJ 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 GeomefridLe and I\IicroIepidof-ttra. However, 1 

 managed to get a Cr ambus ox two, and the rare and beautiful Orohcna 

 octonalis, Zell., hitherto taken, so far as I know, in Texas only. 



Next, I 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, and the moun- 

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

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

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

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

 Just above the beginning of mountain rise, MelitcBa Wrightii was taken, 

 having a narrow range of a 'i&\N hundred feet of elevation. Up at the 



Entomologica Amekicana. Vol. m. 29 Januahy 1888. 



