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. Address: Mr. 

 Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., 572 N. Marengo Ave., Pasadena, Calif.] 



Dr. A. Fenyes, of Pasadena, has been elected a Fellow of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London. 



Dr. William Morton Wheeler, of Harvard University, the chief authority 

 on ants in this country, is planning to spend a part of the winter in Southern 

 California. 



Prof. R. W. Doane, of Stanford University, is the author of a recent publi- 

 cation of Henry Holt & Co., called "Insects and Disease." 



Dr. A. Fenyes is working on a Catalogue of the Aleocharinac of the 

 World. 



According to an interesting editorial in The Argonaut, San Francisco, of 

 October 29, Prof. Woodworth of the University of California, has a book in 

 press on eugenics, Ijased on the life organization of the bee. 



Messrs. Clemence and Coolidge, of Pasadena, have described a new 

 Hesperid, a Rhahdoidcs, from Southern Arizona, related to ccllus, Bdv.-Lec. 



Mr. W. M. Davidson, a graduate of Stanford University, has been spend- 

 ing the fall months in Pasadena. Mr. Davidson has done considerable work 

 on Californian Aphididac, and is now beginning the study and collection of the 

 Syrphidac. 



The late Alexander Agassiz did considerable entomological work in his 

 younger years; he collected a lot of Lepidoptera in central and northern Cali- 

 fornia, and his very first scientific paper was on the flight of Lepidoptera. An 

 excellent sketch of his life is found in Popular Science Monthly for November. 



Mr. J. R. Haskins has returned from a week's vacation at Gold Run, 

 Arizona, where he turned up some interesting Lepidoptera. During the earlv 

 summer he made an extended trip to the east, doing some collcting in Arizona 

 and Mexico on the way. 



Messrs. J. A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard were in Pasadena on Sep- 

 tember 25 and 26, taking a trip up Mt. Lowe. They collected about 10,000 

 Orthoptera during a two months' collecting trip along the coast. 



Air. E. A. JMcGregor, of Stanford University, stopped in Pasadena, the 

 early part of September, on his way to Texas to help fight the Cotton-Iwll 

 Weevil. 



Mr. D. T. Fullaway, entomologist in the Hawaiian Experiment Station, 

 has been spending the present semester in study at Stanford University, and 

 also assisting in Course I, in Entomology. 



