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species taken at San Francisco he referred to fuliginosus , and 

 those taken in Contra Costa County to elongatus. 



Dr. K. C. Van Dyke thought that each member of the 

 Society should specialize upon some group or order of insects. 

 He also spoke upon the life histories of insects, especially the 

 Carabidae, and the need of such work. 



Mr. Edw. Ehrhorn also thought it the proper thing for each 

 member to take up some particular group and referred to the 

 myriads of small things to be found everywhere. 



Dr. Blaisdell exhibited Eleodes rileyi. 



Mr. F. X. Williams the following variations in Lepidoptera: 

 4 Chrysophanus gorgo7i } Pyrameis mulleriS , Anthocharis auson- 

 iades 9 , 3 Melit&a chalcedon — one with a simple row of submar- 

 ginal yellow spots, another with a whitish discal cell, spring 

 and summer forms, the latter more than twice as large as the 

 former. 



The sixteenth regular quarterly meeting of the Pacific Coast 

 Entomological Society was the annual field day, and was held 

 at Fairfax, Marin County, California, on June 11, 1905. Nine 

 members and nine guests participated in the outing. Many 

 good things were taken. Mr. F. W. Nunenmacher obtained 

 two specimens of a blind Tenebrionide,* which is undoubtedly 

 a new and remarkable species and will necessitate the creation 

 of a new genus for its reception. It probably represents a new 

 tribe near the Scaurini. This makes the third species of blind 

 Tenebrionidae from California — Alaudes stngularis and Typh- 

 lusedrus si?igularis being the other two species. Purpuricenus 

 dimidiata and Oberea quadricallosa were also taken. The 

 weather was too dry for fine collecting. 



The seventeenth regular meeting of the Pacific Coast Ento- 

 mological Society was held on August 26, 1905, at the resi- 

 dence of Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, President Fuchs in the chair. 

 Ten members and ten guests were present. President Fuchs 

 read the following notice : 

 Members of the Pacific Coast Ent. Soc. 



With sincere regret I have to announce the death of Mr. 



* See p. 76, 



