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accused of "making deductions too rapidly from his observa- 

 tions and taking a philosophical position from which he refuses 

 to budge." His biographer insinuates that he was as disre- 

 gardful of much of the work of others in his chosen field as he 

 was of humans in general. 



When at last his genius was generally recognized at home 

 as well as abroad, a jubilee held in his honor at Serignan, in 

 April, 1910, and leaders in literature and science acclaimed 

 his greatness, he was well over eighty. Yet in spite of the 

 neglect, the poverty, the sorrows of a long life, Fabre could 

 write from his Serignan hermitage, as he approached his 

 eighty-eighth birthday — 



on reading now the old letters which he [my devoted disciple] has 



exhumed from a mass of old yellow papers it seems to me that 



in the depths of my being I can still feel rising in me all the fever 

 of my early years, all the enthusiasm of long ago, and that I should 

 still be no less ardent a worker were not the weakness of my eyes 

 and the failure of my strength an insurmountable obstacle. 



These words form part of the preface which he contributed 



to that appreciative volume Fabre, Poet of Science, by Dr. C. 



V. Legros, published in English dress in 191 3. 



Notes and News. 



BNTOMOLOQICAL, GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Some Rare California Butterflies (Lep.). 



In the latter part of April, 1914, Mr. H. H. Newcomb and I made an 

 automobile trip from Los Angeles through Elizabeth Lake and Mojave 

 to Johannesburg in the Mojave Desert country. We saw but few but- 

 terflies in Bouquet Canyon, but at Elizabeth Lake, about forty miles 

 south from Tehachapi and at a 3000 foot elevation, we caught a large 

 number of L. chlorina. This is like L. acmon, but of a decided green- 

 ish blue color and quite different from the blue of acmon. Also, it is 

 not at all like Clemence's L. monticola from the Mt. Wilson region, 

 which is a lighter blue than acmon. A few of M. gabhi were taken 

 here. 



Passing into Antelope Valley, which is the western end of the 

 Mojave Desert, at about 2200 feet elevation, we immediately commenced 

 to get another form of Melitaea named neumoegeni by Dr. Skinner. 

 A range of hills marked the line of demarcation betwen the two forms. 



About twelve miles east of Mojave, on the line of the Southern Pa- 

 cific Railway, we ran into a country covered with greasewood. The 



