WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 287 



Mr. E. J. Newcomer of Palo Alto, spent his vacation at Lake Tahoe, 

 again ; his article in the June and July numbers of Entomological News, is 

 a valuable contribution to zoogeography. 



In the July number of the Canadian Entomogolist, is an interesting article 

 by John Russell, on Butterfly Collecting, near Hope, British Columbia. It is 

 a type of article entirely too rare of late ; w-e need more of them. 



Book catalogues of recent date are : Junk's Bulletin No. 7, Bibliotheca 

 Entomologica, No. 107, of Felix L. Dames, Berlin ; Gerhard's Catalogue, No. 

 41 (June, 1910), all containing interesting items for the entomological biblio- 

 phile. 



A new entomological journal has been started in Germany, the Deutsche 

 Entomologische National-Bibliothek, Rundschau im Gebiete der Insektenkunde 

 mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Literature. Began with the June number. 



There have been over twenty scientific societies in California, devoted to 

 natural history, including of course entomology. The names, offices, and 

 members would be interesting, historically, and would furnish much material 

 for the history of science on the West Coast. 



Mr. Wm. Bollerman of Pasadena made a trip to the mountains of \'entura 

 County during the early summer. 



Mr. W. M. Mann of Stanford University, after attending the session of 

 the Seaside Laboratory at Pacific Grove, stopped for a day in Pasadena 

 (July 18) on his way to Arizona, to collect especially Aleocharinae for Dr. 

 Fenyes ; and other insects. He is doing good work in faunistic and ecologic 

 entomology, especially with eurymecophilous insects. 



Miss Julia D. E. Wright, secretary of the Santa Clara Valley Entomo- 

 logical Club, is spending a few months at Vancouver, B. C. 



The Catalogue No. 473, of the firm of R. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin, 

 comprises the valuable and extensive library of the late Dr. O. Standinger ; 

 it consists of 86 pages and 3500 titles, and is a rich collection. There are 

 some fine numbers, including: Hy. Edwards, Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, 30 

 nos. compl., at 12 marks; Boisduvals' Lepidopteres de la Californie, 1852 and 

 1868, at 4 marks each ; Clemens' Synopsis of N. Amer. Sphingidae, 1859 at 7 

 marks ; and many other items. 



Mr. Wm. M. Davidson has been collecting insects around Stanford 

 University, Cal., for the university collections, during the summer. 



Mr. J. C. Bridwell, of the Oregon Agricultural College, has been ap- 

 pointed Instructor in Entomology in the University of California. 



Mr. Wm. Schrader of Los Angeles is continuing his experimental work 

 with the Lepidoptera, with enthusiasm, and is adding some new apparatus. 

 He has obtained some curious and significant forms of Juiioiiia cocnia, Dione 

 vaiiillae, etc. 



In the L'niversity of Colorado Studies, Vol. VII, No. 3, March, 1910, 

 Cockerell and Robbins have a very useful contribution, An Introduction to the 

 Study of Rocky Mountain Bees. It should prove useful to a beginner in Cali- 

 fornia. 



