WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 



(In this department we hope to give in each number of the Journal, some idea of 

 the doings and movements of western entomologists, notices of publications of interest to 

 western students, notices of entomological meetings, etc. To this end, we hope that 

 students or collectors will send in all items of entomological interest about themselves or 

 others. Address, Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., 572 N. Marengo Avenue, Pasadena, Cal.) 



Mr. Erval J. Newcomer, of Palo Alto, will probably spend the summer 

 collecting around Lake Tahoe, where he has already spent two summers. 



Mr. Virgil W. Owen, of Los Angeles, has been engaged in natural history 

 collecting on the Tres Marias Islands, off the west coast of Mexico. He is 

 expected home the last of May. 



Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Clemence left Pasadena the first part of May, for a four 

 months' trip to Europe. Mr. Clemence will visit the British and Tring Museums, 

 and will probably go over to Rennes, France, and see Oberthur's collection, which 

 is supposed to contain Boisduval's California Lepidoptera. 



Mr. J. G. Grundel has presented his collection of 100 boxes of Lepidoptera to 

 the California Academy of Sciences. This collection is especially rich in species 

 of the Santa Cruz mountains, where Mr. Grundel lived for several years. 



Mr. Don. Ross, of Pasadena, made a short trip to San Clemente Island in 

 April. The only butterfly which he saw and captured is probably the same as 

 the mainland form — Cyaniris pscudargioliis piasus. 



The Monograph of the Eleodiini by Dr. F. E. Blaisdell of San Francisco, will 

 soon be issued by the U. S. National Museum as Bulletin No. 63, 519 pages, 13 

 plates, and 8 figures. This work has been in preparation for eight years. 



At the Entomological Conference held during the last of April at Berkeley, 

 an organization of the Society of Economic Entomologists was effected. Prof. 

 C. W. Woodworth was elected president; Prof. W. B. Herms secretary-treasurer, 

 and thirteen vice-presidents, representing the various Western States. There are 

 now five entomological clubs or societies in California, most of which, however, 

 are in need of a tonic. 



Mr. Wilhelm Schrader, of Los Angeles, is doing some very interesting and 

 significant experimental work with Dionc vanillac, Jitnonia coenia, and Lciiionias 

 chalcedon. 



In Wickson's California Fruits and How to Grow Them, 4th edition, 1909, 

 there is a section on injurious insects, edited by Prof. W. T. Clarke, of the Univer- 

 sity of California. On page 394 there is a figure of an insect labeled "Thrips — 

 greatly enlarged." The insect figured belongs to the Mallophaga or Biting Bird- 

 lice. One would hardly look for it on a fruit tree. 



