June, '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 199 



Anglesea, N. J., no specimens of Cidex sollicitans had been 

 encountered. On April i ith larvae of Culex cantans had been 

 found but no sollicitans. 



William J. Fox, Secretary. 



The third regular quarterly meeting of the California Ento- 

 mological Club was held on the evening of February 22, 1902, 

 at the residence of Mr. Beverly Letcher, 2701 Laguna Street, 

 San Francisco. President Fuchs in the chair. 



A paper by Dr. Edw. C. Van Dyke on " The Faunal Areas 

 in California as seen by a Field Coleopterist " was then read. 



The Doctor divided the State Faunal Areas into two divi- 

 sions — the Boreal and the Sonoran, as indicative of their mode 

 of origin. The Boreal was subdivided into the Maritime and 

 the Sierran ; the Sonoran into Southern California, Great Ba- 

 sin and the Sonoran proper. 



He named the following species of Coleoptera as most typical 

 of the several faunas : Of the Maritime, among the Carabidae, 

 Pejnphus angusticollis with its races ; Breiums cristatus and its 

 more southern relative reticulatus, Elaphnis pallipes, Loricoa 

 lo-punctata, Leistiis ferriiginosus, Promecognathus Icsvissiinus , 

 Bembidiuni erasum, B. ^.-foveolattim , B. spectabile, Pterostichus 

 crenicollis, Pt. amethystinus, Pt. longicollis^ and Pt. viciniis ; 

 several species oi Amara, Platymis, Tachycellus nigrimis; Hali- 

 piidcB, Brychiiis honiii ; Dytiscidae, Dytiscus marginalis; several 

 Silphides ; Byrrhidae, Simplocaria nitida, two species of Pedilo- 

 phoriis ; Lucanidae, Ceruchus striates ; Scarabaeidae, Aphodius 

 jirsi?ius ; Cerambycidae, Opsitnus ^-lineatus, Leptalia macilenta, 

 etc.; more southern species which, at one time, belonged to 

 this fauna ; Befubidium laticeps, Trechus barbarcB, Pterostichus 

 menetriesii , Pt. isabella" and Pt. co?igestus. 



Of the Sierran, the genus Omus, Cicindela perviridis, C.gra- 

 minea, most Brenmis, Pterostichus ater, species of Bembidijim, 

 Platymis, Harpalus, Nebria, Notiophilus, Trechus chalybeiis, 

 Patrobus septentrionis , Pleocoma, Hoplia, Dichelojiycha , conifer- 

 ous wood-boring beetles in part, as also many of the Dytiscidae, 

 Mycetophagidae, Endomychidae and Coccinellidae. 



Of the Sonoran, Edrotes ventricosus, Triorophus Icevis, Cryp- 



