IQOl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 243 



with G. scudderi and lighting on sand bars and low bushes. It 

 was scarce. We did not see it ovipositing. 



The appendages and hamules of our specimens agree with 

 Needham's figures of this species, but the specimens differ 

 from Morse's description as follows : The thorax is bright 

 grass green in both sexes, but the female faded in drying more 

 than the males, which held their color well. 



The abdomen of the males varied from 31 to 33 mm. In all 

 of our specimens the antehumeral stripe is joined to the humeral 

 stripe above, but separated below by a green stripe of equal 

 width. The spot on the dorsum of loth abdominal segment 

 not lanceolate but oblong. 



(To be continued.) 



CoRRCTioN to Ent. News, 1901, p. 207, line 17 : Erase " platura Meigen 

 =^', and insert a ( after " zett." 



Organization of California Entomological Club.— On August 7, 

 1901, Mr. Charles Fuchs issued a call to the entomologists of California 

 for the organization of an Entomological Club. 



Pursuant to call a meeting convened in the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of San Francisco, at 2 o'clock on August 15th. 



Prof. H. Fall, acting as temporary President, opened the meeting. The 

 following officers were elected for the current year : 



President, Charles Fuchs ; Vice-President, Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg ; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. F. E. Blaisdell. 



President Fuchs then took the chair and proceeded to the further or- 

 ganization of the Society. Interesting remarks were made by Prof. Wm. 

 H. Ashmead. 



It was decided that the Club hold quarterly meetings, and that the 

 summer meeting be termed the annual meeting, and be subject to the 

 change of time and place. That the November meeting be held at the 

 residence of Mr. Charles Fuchs. 



It was alo decided that the May meeting be a field day. 



Social discourse then followed. 



The following is a list of the charter members : 



Charles Fuchs, Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, Prof. H. C. Fall, E. L. Ricksecker, 

 Dr. H. H. Behr, W. G. W. Harford, Beverly Letcher, F. \V. Nunenmacher, 

 C. W. Herr, Prof. William H. Ashmead, Edw. Ehrhom, James W. Cottle, 

 Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, J. G. Grundel, C. A. Whiting, Newton B. Pierce, Dr. 

 A. Fenyes, George Harvey, F. E. Clark, Prof. J. J. Rivers, L. O. Howard, 

 Grattum Naturalist Club. Adjournment. 



F. E. Blaisdell, Secretary. 



1906 Sutter St., San Francisco. 



