183 



Describes young and old larva; and the chrysalis ; habits, food-plant 

 (Ceanothus thyrsiflorni) ; notes on abundance and transformations. 



* 557. H. Edwards. Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, No. 14. 

 — Notes on the Genus Catocala, with Descriptions of New 

 Species, p. 21-29. 



Describes C. Cleopatra, C. Mariana, C. Perdjta, C. Hippolyta, C. Luci- 

 ano, C. Cassandra = 6 n. spp. ; re-describes C. Californica, C. Faustina, 

 C. Irene, C. marmoraia, C. Stretchii, C. Aholibah, C. Zoe. 



* 558. H. Edwards. Darhngtonia Californica. [San 

 Francisco Evening] "Bulletin," Dec. 22, 1875. 



Description of this plant, its botanical relations, its arrangement and 

 action as a fly-trap, and a list of insects (5 Col., 3 Hym., 3 Orth., 3 Neur., 

 •20 or more Dipt., 3 Lep., 4 Hem., 2 Arachn.) found in the pitchers; a 

 spider (Thomisusl sp.), small dipterous larvae (Tipulid?), a larger dipterous 

 larva and a lepidopterous larva feed upon or in the pitchers. 



* 559. J. Traherne Moggridge. Supplement to Harvest- 

 ing Ants and Trap-door Spiders. With Specific Descriptions of 

 the Spiders, by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. London, 

 Reeve, 1874. pp. ?i-xii, 157-304, with eight plates (xiii-xx). 



p. 198-210, pi. xv ; p. 260-264. Describes and figures nest, eggs and 

 imago of Cteniza Californica n. sp. ; habits of the spider. 



Proceedings of the Club. 



§ 12. Notes on the White Mountain Faunae. One 

 of the characteristic features of this fauna, at the time of the 

 meeting, was the abundance of the fly known as Simulium mo- 

 lestum. It was not known to any of the members present 

 whether the bloodthirsty propensities of the species were mani- 

 fested by the females alone or by both sexes indifferently; but 

 the opinion expressed by one of the members was that the fe- 

 males alone drew blood, and that the males were not of frequent 

 occurrence. 



Syrphus torvus was noticed to be extremely abundant, a cir- 

 cumstance which the writer suggested might have some con- 

 nection with the equal or greater abundance, especially at an 

 earlier period, of a species of plant-louse (Aphis?), which in- 

 fested the branches of birch-trees, and, according to the report 

 of one of the members, who had been on the mountain earlier 



