WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



[In this department we hope to give in most numbers of the Journal 

 some idea of the doings and movements of western entomologists, notices of 

 publications of interest to western students, notices of entomological meet- 

 ings, etc. To this end, we hope that students or collectors will send in all 

 items of entomological interest about themselves or others. Mr. Grinnell will 

 be very glad to answer any questions or help anyone in any way, by letter 

 or personally. Address, Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., 572 N. Marengo Ave., 

 Pasadena, Cal.] 



Mr. D. W. Coquillett of Washington, D. C, is visiting in Los Angeles 

 during this spring. 



Mr. Wm. M. Mann of Stanford University is studying and collecting 

 myrmecophilous insects, especially Coleoptera, and has already found some 

 very interesting forms. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell describes a number of new Californian bees in 

 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, for January, 1910. 



One wing of the County Historical Museum and Art Gallery about to 

 be erected in Agricultural Park, Los Angeles, will be occupied by the 

 collections of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 



The March meeting of the Pasadena Entomological Society was held 

 at the residence of Mr. Karl R. Coolidge, in Pasadena. Mr. Wm. Schrader, 

 of Los Angeles, reviewed some of the interesting experimental work of 

 Standfuss, on the Lepidoptera ; and alluded to some of his own work. 



Mr. Francis X. Williams of San Francisco has been appointed assistant 

 curator of the Snow Entomological Collections of the University of Kansas. 

 On his way to Kansas he stopped for a few days' visit in Pasadena. 



Prof. Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University was a recent visitor 

 at Pomona College. 



Mr. D. L. Crawford expects to spend another summer in Mexico, 

 collecting in some of the Southeastern States. 



The Palos Verdes Marine Laboratory of Pomona College at Portuguese 



Bend — a very favorable point on the coast of Southern California — will be 



opened during the coming summer. This laboratory is intended especially 



to supplement the work of the Department of Biology of Pomona College, 



but it will l)e open to any .students or investigators desiring to work at this 



point. 



Dr. F. E. Blaisdcll and Dr. Edwin C. VanDyke are planning a collecting 



trip for Coleoptera to the high Sierras of Middle California. 



Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy died in San Francisco, February 2d. He was a good 

 student of the Hemiptera, and was commencing a monumentous catalogue 

 of the Hemiyitcra of the world, published by Felix L. Dames, Berlin, Germany. 



l'*nini JaniKiry to April, the Oakland College of Medicine, Oakland, Cal., 

 nffcrrd a cmirsc in Tropical Diseases and Medical Parasitology to graduates 



