220 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '13 



Thorne in making the acquaintance of "Doc" Stewart, mine 

 host at the Old Crow, — an old-timer of the sixties, whose 

 warm-hearted interest in me is a pleasant memory. 



From Thorne I continued my journey to Southern Califor- 

 nia by an unusual route, as it was necessary to include Owen's 

 Lake in the itinerary. I continued down the Goldfield railroad 

 to Mina, where I changed to a narrow-gauge line that ends at 

 Keeler, on the east side of Owen's Lake. I left this line at 

 Owenyo, where it is joined by a Southern Pacific broad gauge 

 branch that strikes the main line at Mojave, from which it is 

 easy to reach Los Angeles. 



We reached Owenyo about midnight, several hours behind 

 time, and were accommodated in a box car hotel, the single 

 men occupying hard bunks in an undivided car. Next morn- 

 ing the mixed train on the branch took me as far down as 

 Olancha, which I had been informed would be a good point 

 from which to inspect the west shore of the lake. It proved to 

 be about five miles beyond the lake, so I put in most of the 

 day collecting along a beautiful little mountain stream coming 

 out of the Sierras and around some seepage near the lake. 

 Diptera of interest were Pelastoneurus dissimilipes, Tachytre- 

 chus auratus and Rhagolctis minuta. Many insects of other 

 orders occupied my attention and would be well worth record- 

 ing if they had been identified. That evening I took the up 

 train again to get to a point near the lake, and (accepting 

 advice again) stopped ofif at Brier siding at 10 P. M., only to 

 find that the ranch supposed to be there was at another siding 

 and there was not a human being within miles except the Mex- 

 ican boy who had driven down from the Los Angeles aqueduct 

 camp to pick up any Slavs who might have drifted in to work 

 on the ditch. The boy took me up to the camp and let me 

 sleep on a few sacks on the ground. Next morning I secured 

 breakfast with the laborers and walked to the lake, where I 

 made what observations were necessary in time to leave again 

 on the southbound train. The lake is densely alkaline and is 

 full of the larvae of Ephydra hians. 



The evening of this day found me in Los Angeles and the 

 remainder of the trip may be passed over in a few paragraphs. 

 In Los Angeles I collected carefully about the ponds of crude 



